Posted on 03/25/2015 10:41:16 AM PDT by Bodhi1
When Deanna Sporleder's 17 year-old son announced he was spending the night at his 16 year-old girlfriend's house, her home life turned upside down, and part of it was subsidized by federal grants to the local school.
Deanna and her husband were against their son leaving home and moving in with his teen girlfriend, but the girl's parents consented and the local law enforcement, both county and city, told Deanna that at seventeen, her son could move out and they had no power to stop him.
A few months later, she while signing her other children up for school, she asked what she should do about the situation with her son regarding enrollment.
"Not only did they tell me not to worry about it, my son was actually in the school counselor's office at that very moment, registering as an unaccompanied youth and being identified as 'homeless,'" Sporleder said.
Her son was categorized as being in a "doubled up" situation, meaning living with friends or relatives due to a lack of housing. But he had housing and a loving family that wanted him home.
Rather than attempt to reach out and reconcile things with his family, the school labeled Sporleder's son as homeless and began subsidizing his choice.
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Government is the enemy to its citizens, the family, and God
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This is more common than you might think. Kids or their parents will use this to get into schools with better sports or academic programs than the schools where they belong. If they’re listed as “homeless”, they can enroll pretty much anywhere.
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“Rather than attempt to reach out and reconcile things with his family, the school labeled Sporleder’s son as homeless and began subsidizing his choice.”
So what? If he’s legally an adult, then it is his choice, not his family’s.
ps... when an adult leaves his parent’s home, it’s called “moving out”, not “running away”.
Did you even read the article?
Yep.
So you don’t have an issue with what looks like a school using kids to get more federal grant money, even if it hurts their relationship with their family?
Really?
“ps... when an adult leaves his parent’s home, it’s called “moving out”, not “running away”.”
Until he does something stupid, gets in BIG trouble with the law, and then becomes an unarmed TEENAGER.
“So you don’t have an issue with what looks like a school using kids to get more federal grant money, even if it hurts their relationship with their family?”
Well, for one thing, I think “looks like” is the operative phrase in that sentence. This story is obviously written by someone sympathetic with the parents, but we can glean from the facts included that the child is legally an adult in his state and can make his own decisions about where he is going to live, and how he is going to register for school. It also means that it isn’t really the school’s business to worry about his relationship with his family.
It does not say he is legally an adult. it says the following:
” ...the local law enforcement, both county and city, told Deanna that at seventeen, her son could move out and they had no power to stop him.”
He is certainly NOT homeless. He has two options for shelter, his girlfriend and his parents.
It is the taxpayers’ business to worry about the school milking the system for homeless funds when the **boy** is obviously NOT homeless at all.
Please remember, the next time you meet a semi-literate ( and likely totally innumerate) high school graduate, that there is an ARMY of lying teachers and principals who lied to make that diploma happen. These teachers and principals lied to the child, to the parents, and to the taxpayers who are under police threat to pay for it.
Unless this dunce is self supporting, has way more money than sense, and if that is the case why would he still subject himself to school, he is being supported by someone and that someone has control. The state should not even enter the equation other than to find out who is supporting the underage idiot. I’m sure he is just overjoyed the girl friends family is willing to take him in, thus thumbing his nose at rules at home, while ostensibly enjoying all the benefits of cohabitation.
It does not say he is legally an adult. it says the following:
” ...the local law enforcement, both county and city, told Deanna that at seventeen, her son could move out and they had no power to stop him.”
If he was not legally an adult, then they would have the power to stop him, thus this is saying he is legally an adult.
“He is certainly NOT homeless. He has two options for shelter, his girlfriend and his parents.”
People choose to be homeless all the time when they have other options. That doesn’t mean they aren’t homeless.
“It is the taxpayers’ business to worry about the school milking the system for homeless funds when the **boy** is obviously NOT homeless at all.”
Then go prove it. So far, all I’ve seen is a one-sided article written by someone with an obvious agenda to drum up sympathy for the parents.
That boy is in for quite a tough life. I feel bad for his family, but he’s a creepy kid and they can’t change that. He’d never step foot in my house again if he were my son.
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