Parents face criminal charges for walking kids to school

'They have been cited. They have been threatened'

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A Texas elementary school regularly threatens criminal charges to parents who enter the property to drop off or pick up their children.  Branch Elementary School in Magnolia requires parents to wait in a lengthy car pickup/drop-off zone each day no matter how close they live to the building. The policy, which is enforced by Montgomery County constables, was instituted under the auspices of increased safety.

Wendy Jarman, a private school teacher and parent who pulled her children from Bear Branch, told KRIV-26 on Tuesday that Principal Holly Ray is out of line.
“She’s threatening to arrest people,” Jarman said. “This has happened to many parents. They have been cited. They have been threatened that if they step one foot on school property [then] they will be arrested and charged with who knows what......

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My Take - This problem is universal when it comes to government employees - they've forgotten whose in charge.  I would hope the parents would organize and all march on to school property enmass to pick up their kids and get arrested.  That will start a court battle to change everything - including this principle, the school superintendent and the shool board.  All of whom are guilty as this principle or this wouldn't be going on.  The shools don't own these children, nor do they eve own the buildings they occupy.  The children belong to the parents and so do these buildings.  Hired help's job is to salute and say, "yes sir".  These people are hired help.  Why has everyone forgotten that? 

Another good reason to eliminate the Department of Education, dump the teacher's unions and seriouly reduce what these people are being paid....and that includes the benefits packages these people are getting which are bankrupting cities all over the country.