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Monday, May 12, 2008

Daughter Fails Math - Dad goes to Jail

A northern Kentucky man is in jail today – serving a 180-day sentence – because his 18-year-old daughter failed a math test and didn’t get her General Equivalency Diploma, or GED, as a previous court order required.

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Brittany Gegner, the daughter, says if anyone should be jailed, it should be her. “It’s like I should, if anybody should be punished for this,” Brittany told WCPO-TV in Cincinnati. “I would way rather me go to jail than my dad.”

Even Brian Gegner’s ex-wife agrees the judge’s decision is absurd. “They probably should have punished me if they were going to punish anybody,” said Brittany’s mother Shana Roach. “Because she did live with me at the time, but because he had the custody, that’s why he’s being punished. But I don’t understand the punishment altogether because she’s going to school, she’s been going for four months. The only thing that’s holding her back is she can’t pass her math test.”

Is it right for one person to be punished for the failures of another person, in this case for an adult? Is it right for the State to require, punishable by law, that a person graduate from High School? Is it right to punish her father when the girl is still studying to pass her the math portion of the GED test? Is this even Constitutional?

For the rest of the story, go to:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=64055

Comments

Boy howdy! My dad would have been in the deepest darkest prison hole IF I had to pass my math tests! YIKES!

Zsa Zsa on May 12, 2008 at 12:50 pm

Fascists!


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on May 12, 2008 at 01:42 pm

I hate when my parents have to go to jail because of my GPA!

Zsa Zsa on May 12, 2008 at 01:46 pm

My kids should go to jail because I’ve been blogging at work.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on May 12, 2008 at 01:47 pm

I was reeeeeally blessed with smart kids! Thank God! BUT I can just see Will flunking a math test on purpose just to get me. Mind you he got a perfect score in the Math on his sat’s! (That is exactly why I married is father!!!) I had to for gene pool purposes!

Zsa Zsa on May 12, 2008 at 01:55 pm

Oh come ON!!!!

This has to be a joke. I agree with Zsa Zsa....my parents would have been in a dank, mouldy dungeon somewhere if my grades had been the barometer.

This CAN’T be right.

So....let me do this math: Butt head child = jailed parent.

Sorry....that does not compute.


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Pilgrim on May 12, 2008 at 07:34 pm

I wonder who’s making the child support payments with Daddy in the slammer?


“Poverty of goods is easily cured; poverty of the mind is irreparable.”

Bat One on May 12, 2008 at 08:44 pm

Exactly how is he supposed to make this empty headed girl learn math?


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2Hotel9 on May 13, 2008 at 03:07 am

She’s 18 now.  Now’s the time to throw dad in jail when he’s not worth anything to the state.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on May 13, 2008 at 04:47 am

The judge needs to go to jail for sending the daddy ti jail. What a power mad person!

Zsa Zsa on May 13, 2008 at 05:03 am

To further expand my point, judges often order fathers to pay for college for their kids.

Now I intend to pay for my kids to go to college.  On the other hand I don’t see the state ordering me to do so.

But by failing math this girl may have interfered with the judges plan by making her ineligible for college. 

If you can’t punish them one way do it another.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on May 13, 2008 at 05:08 am

To further expand my point, judges often order fathers to pay for college for their kids.

I think that this is retarted.  If a kid wants to go to college, they should work hard and pay their own way through.  They are legal adults and should invest in their own future.

I thought that you couldn’t be put in jail for the actions of another person.  This judge should be thrown in the slammer.



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dougee on May 13, 2008 at 11:22 am

The way Dad ‘splained it to me is that he wasn’t paying for my college because he owed it to me.  He was doing so because he owed it to his dad.


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on May 13, 2008 at 11:23 am

Oh, he also explained that the same thing was going to apply to me......


What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.


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The Whistler on May 13, 2008 at 11:24 am

This judge should be thrown in the slammer.

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Damn gop activist judges…


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realitybasedbob on May 13, 2008 at 11:32 am
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So… anyone see the South Park where the kids all called the police and claimed they were “molestered” and eventually the entire adult population was removed from town?  This feels sorta like that.  Too goofy to be true.  What is wrong with people?!?  Isn’t there ANY common sense left in this country?

Life is like South Park on May 13, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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