Demand an End to Excessive School Fines, Now!

The current Truancy Plan of Lebanon County of Pa for schools sounds reasonable and fair, that is until it has affected you unjustly. You may face a fine up to $700 If found in violation to the Truancy Plan. This can cause hardships in households. With so many people being excessly fined the issue is still at hand causing other problems and solving not many. With most families being minorities, Parents are put in jail if not able to afford fines and cost. Isn't that a violation of ones rights according to the 8th Amendment. Being violated has happened to many causing lost of employment and children attending late to school just about everyday a parent is gone. For every 400 late minutes it is counted as a unexcused day of absence, for how ever many days of unexcused absences is when the fines start rolling in. You even may be fined several times within the same school year. Why? Why are our schools still poor? Why are attendance not improving? Why aren't attendance plans put in place sooner than later. The problem is each truancy case is to be handled individually , case by case, however for most it does not matter if you have a rebellious older child who can be held accountable or a ill/disabled child, and with the fine it doesn't matter if your poor, do your best as a parent, send in notes or are proactive in your childs education you will be fined a hefty amount. It isn't fair and it is not handled individually case by case. The current Truancy Plan should be handled by more than just a secretary or school staff sending out notices. It should be handled by a group of people to form a policy and within this group atleast one being a parent, in addition to a community member, a school official, and at least one person with social and human services education or work experience. It is up to schools to send these cases into the courts and the Judge to impose the fine, somewhere before or between the process needs fixed. The Truancy Plan of Lebanon County Pa needs to be better managed and monitored in order to not only keep the children in a classroom but to also keep the Parents in their homes and not in prison or in debt. If you are anyone you know has been excessively fined, if you believe that not every case is managed properly,  if you believe that there needs to be a better system in place to help monitor each case by case, if you think the fines are too high, if you believe in at least one of these points , If you believe your county in Pennsylvania  other than Lebanon are using the Truancy Plan unjustly then I ask that you may please sign and get others to sign too. Thank you. 

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