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[quote=Anonymous]http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/parents-say-loudoun-officials-reaching-too-far-to-stop-school-tardies/2012/02/03/gIQAMUUmpQ_story.html?hpid=z6

Front-page.

Read this critically and I can't decide how I feel.

On the one hand, I do think sending a sheriff after you because your kids are a couple of minutes late to school too often sounds a little over the top.

On the other hand, I also think this family may have been spoiling for a fight:

-- Dad is a lawyer prone to referring to government as a "nanny state."

-- Mom says things like "It's not my goal that the kids are late, but my coal is that they arrive to school well-fed, ready to learn and comfortable in their skin." UGH.

-- They are tardy fully 1/3 of the time.

-- This paragraph: "If the parents are cooperating with the truancy officer, they're referred to the county's Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court." Which suggests that there's been quite a bit of due process before the cops showed up and this family's response was to go crying to the newspapers.

So, on balance, I understand I'm supposed to react with outrage against the county (I live in Arlington, FWIW), but this feels really manufactured and I'm also concluding that these are people who regard their children as very special snowflakes and the rules of their school and community as optional for them.

What do others think?[/quote]

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