Get Off The Cross – We Need The Wood! Nobody Jailed For Sending Black Kids To White School

Get Off The Cross – We Need The Wood! Nobody Jailed For Sending Black Kids To White School: "

By now, most people are aware of the case of the Ohio woman who was sentenced to 10 days in jail, 2 years probation and 80 hours of community service for violation of a school residency requirement. Kelley Williams-Bolar used her father’s address to send her two daughters to a school outside of their school district. Bolar was also a teacher’s aide seeking her Ohio teaching certificate but is now ineligible because she has been convicted on one count of falsification of records, however, she was granted a mistrial on the charge of grand theft because the jury could not reach a decision on the grand theft charge. If you want to read more about the case click here.

Now that the story is out there, I can get started on my rant. I am absolutely sick and tired of people hopping on the “it’s because they’re black” bandwagon. Is this story unfortunate? Yes it is but lets have some real talk here…….here are the realities:

Bolar used her father’s address to enroll her children into a district other than the one she lived in. Since she knowingly used her father’s address, she knew that her daughter’s were not supposed to be going to the school where she was enrolling them. Where I’m from, that’s fraud, no matter her reason for doing it, in the eyes of the law, it’s still fraud……..sorry for ya luck.

Secondly, the school that she had fraudulently sent her kids to, does have an out of district enrollment policy, that policy consists of $800.00 per month for tuition. Okay, work with me here, if a person is supposed to pay for a service and then intentionally lies to get out of paying for that service, is that not theft? If she was not trying to intentionally dodge the tuition, there would have been no need for her to have filled out fake forms, right, or am I missing something? Let’s do a little math, $800 bucks a month for 9 months, for two kids (mmm carry the 1) comes out to be $28,880.

Why should this school district be forced to eat the cost of services that were stolen from them? From what I read, it’s procedure for the family who has fraudulently enrolled their kids in school for the parents to pay the school tuition and move their kids back where they are supposed to go to school. Bolar apparently didn’t have the money, was that more than likely why she dipped out on the tuition in the first place? When you can’t pay for services you steal, they take you to jail, that is not new shit.

There are claims that Bolar was fined $30,000. I have yet to read a report that said she was responsible for a $30,000 fine, I did read that the school district had damages in excess of $30,000 (tuition and the 6k it cost to investigate Bolar and her girls). As a matter of fact, had the court ordered for Bolar to pay the school the money that she rightfully owes them, the court would not be out of line, that’s what the court does when people steal from one another.

I am not a cold-hearted person but I am a realist. I completely “get” that Ms. Bolar was trying to give her daughters a better education and I don’t blame her for that but she took an informed risk. I say that it’s an informed risk because Bolar knew the possible consequences of her actions, she felt her girls were worth the risk and she did what she thought was best. I don’t fault her for that either, but when one takes a risk they have to be prepared to take whatever comes next.

This is not a case of black and white (although some will argue that they made an example out of her because of her race), it’s a case that she gambled and lost……..that’s life.

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