Girl's fear of school costs district thousands

The Morning Call ^ | 5/18/08 | Andrew C. Martel

[taxesareforever]

Lesson learned but probably won’t make any difference. Watch how many line up to take advantage of this situation. They will opt to have their kids put on such a program and, as a judge would say, the precedent has been set.

[Amelia]

I wonder when the father went off to Peru in relation to when this problem started?

[Chode]

ahhh, hereditary...

[Tired of Taxes]

The mother in the story is unemployed...maybe she has it too.

I'd say the mother DOES have a job. Her job is bilking the taxpayers and the local school system out of lots of money. Being a crook is hard work. ;-)

[Tired of Taxes]

even with the awards from the school district, she hasn't managed to even learn the basics, because her mother has spent the money sending her off to self-esteem-boosting exercises that have yielded nothing.

Here's my favorite line in the story:

Barbara Maykish has opted not to homeschool her, saying she worried that she would not be able to help Rebecca with her math and writing problems.

I take that to mean she's not even helping her daughter to learn. She's just sitting back and letting the money roll in.

[Tired of Taxes]

In this case, it sounds more like the parent is a con artist. :-(

[linn37]

Good work if you can’t get it.

[Tired of Taxes]

Yes, that was very unkind. The mother is wrong for bilking the taxpayers out of thousands of dollars. But the young girl is an innocent.

[dbwz]

I take that to mean she's not even helping her daughter to learn. She's just sitting back and letting the money roll in.

Normally I look at stories like this and say, "Hmm, we're probably not getting the whole tale here," because that's usually the case, and I try very hard not to be too judgmental. But this was just one dumb-ass excuse after another for not getting this kid the help she needed.

This young lady's fate has unfortunately been sealed; this experiment is an abject failure and the community has only succeeded in producing yet another candidate for perpetual assistance programs instead of a productive member of society. But I hope this opens some eyes to just where the tax dollars go and what they're being wasted on. Or at the very least, if a program like this has to exist, make the awards contingent on results - would that be so much to ask?