Dad Accused of 'Stealing Education' for Daughter Pleads to Lesser Charge

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13. I missed that in the article because it wasn't mentioned

What I saw was she lived there for 8 months. I think it is disruptive to pull kids out of school over a move. She was in kindergarten.

Anyway it was the headline that pissed me off. Stealing education! Piffle. Like the homeless woman who got 5 years for sending her child to school in a district where she didn't live. I think it is criminal to focus on the "theft" of an education and fail to focus on the real crimes in education. Districts who sell off the public resources to for-profits, states that balance their budgets by underpaying teachers, corporations that sell overpriced educational materials to districts, consultants who charge exorbitant rates for delivering nothing of value, expensive out-of-state travel opportunities for superintendents and school boards. These are the ones who are stealing. But let's pick on the parents who for whatever reasons "steal" educational resources for their children. I am a teacher. No one has to "steal" from me what I would share voluntarily for free.