North Carolina mother sues school district for kicking her homeless kids out of class
A woman in North Carolina is suing a school district, alleging officials forced her children to switch schools while they experienced homelessness.
The suit from the mother, identified as K.L., claims Gaston County Schools; Lisa Phillips, state coordinator for Education of Homeless Children; and the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction failed her children when the district forced the children to leave their original schools while already facing the trauma of homelessness.
The 17-page lawsuit filed on Jan. 26 states K.L. was evicted from her residence in September 2023 while her children were students at New Hope Elementary and Cramerton Middle School.
With two children and nowhere to go, the suit states the disabled veteran mother switched both children to car riders while searching for steady housing. While the family remained in the same city, they were not located in the same school zone following the eviction.
But were her kids kicked out for being homeless or were they kicked out for being obnoxious disturbances? The title makes it seem like her kids are being kicked out of school for being homeless. And why was she evicted from her residence?
It's nice how you immediately jump to victim-blaming with absolutely no context.
Because that was the point of the article.
Wholly irrelevant question.
I'll explain what likely happened given what was in the article:
She was kicked out of her house. Her children therefore did not live in the school district. The school administration decided to kick them out of school for not living in the district.
Are they following the letter of the law? Probably. Could they be more compassionate and flexible? Definitely.
You didn't even need to click on the link. It's right there in the last paragraph OP posted.
And that answers none of the questions I posed, evasion isn't going to gloss over the issues I listed.
Idk where you are from or if you are trolling, but in the US they have school districts, and kids are supposed to go to the specific school designated for the school district where they live. It's bullshit in this case, because the kids are homeless.
I imagine it was because they no longer technically had a mailing address in the district. Would have been a nice thing if the school district had let it slide, at minimum until the start of summer vacation but they decided that wasn't the priority. Better ten kids not get an education vs one poor kid get a good one is our motto apparently.
That's a pretty lousy reason to kick kids out of school. IF that's really what it's all about, the article didn't make that clear at all.
If anything the school district should step in at that point and offer to help the family instead of shitting all over them when they are in such terrible circumstances.
If they had done that would we have heard about it? No one is going to read/click/comment on an article "school district has issued exception about residency requirements to allow students to finish the year".
the McKinney-Vento Act. Already covers this. They are simply choosing to ignore it
The law is whatever you want it to be ever since Roe v. Wade was gutted. A clump of cells has more rights than a woman. My dead body will have more legal rights than 52% of our citizens.
Congratulations, you're both incredibly dumb and an incredibly shitty person.
And you're the scum of the earth, so that still ranks me higher than you in every possible way.