TEMPLE – A mother and daughter were booked into Bell County Jail on Tuesday, one of many cases of parents serving time with their children for contempt of court after truancy.
Melissa Diane Mayo and Ashley Mayo are just the latest in a series of people behind bars for missing class.
The Temple Independent School District attendance policy is similar to that of all other districts across the state.
It reads that if a child under 18 is “absent from school on 10 or more days or partial days within a six-month period in the same school year, or on three or more days or parts of days within a four-week period,” the parent will be prosecuted for contributing to truancy and the child for failure to attend school.
While Judge David Barfield is not at liberty to discuss the particular case of the Mayos, he and the constable told News Channel 25 that being held “in contempt of court” is often for not complying with previous court orders having to do with truancy.
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Oh Lord! What next!!!
Well, another thing we have to get mixed up in, more repressed freedoms. If a kid isn’t going to go to school. Then they can get a job and become working citizens in their community.