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[VT-XS]

found old writing  SanFelippo Cuz found them 

That's exactly how I see it. Imagine that.

[Swampfox]

Bonnie!  Saw that too!  Said Hi, too; your sweet and unstanding wife Beth also.   no  

[jmdaniel]

It might be time for the Constable to stop using the nickname "Rowdy"? Especially when he is commenting on kids that are acting out?

I just laugh when my wife and I are asked why we don't have kids. It's not that I don't like (some) kids, it's that I would have to rasie them amongst a bunch of their friends who were raised by idiots. 

[Claw]

In the 60's the offspring of the people that were glad to be at peace took it all for granted and got on drugs....
         [/quote]

Yea, that part is true.... but in the words of THE "Bad A$$" of my youth.....

 A mans got to know his limitations...

I grew out of it. And it didn't take long. Today, kids DO know right from wrong. They just don't give a damn!

[hipshot]

A little followup:




Judge: Not in my court,"lying mom" jailed

By Jamie Nash
March 28, 2009

Pct. 4 Justice of the Peace James Metts demonstrated his seriousness about two topics this week – juveniles skipping school and their parents lying for them. When one mother took protecting her rule breaking child to the extreme, Judge Metts sent her to jail on felony charges.

Lisa Higginson, 30, of New Caney is charged with tampering / fabrication physical evidence, which is a third-degree felony.

When a student has repeated unexcused absences, they and their parents are required to go before the Judge. On March 10 Metts sentenced 21 students, ages 17 to 19 (adults in the eyes of the law) to three days in jail for violating court orders and his instructions to attend school.

On Thursday, Higginson went to court to defend her son, armed with doctor’s notes excusing the juvenile’s five unexcused absences this semester from New Caney High School, Metts said.

“They looked like they’d been altered,” he said. “We asked her to wait and we called the doctor’s office and learned the young man hadn’t been in this year at all, and only had one office visit in 2008.”

Metts said it was bad enough the woman lied to the court, but the worst part was it was done in front of her son who knew she was lying.

The Assistant District Attorney working intake accepted the charges and Higginson was arrested escorted from the court by deputies with the Pct. 4 office of Constable Kenneth “Rowdy” Hayden to the Montgomery County Jail in Conroe. Family members agreed to pick up her son.

Metts gave the other parents in his courtroom a strong warning after Higginson’s arrest.

“If you present something to this court, you’d better make sure it’s authentic,” Metts said.

One mother who told Metts’ staff she had doctor’s notes when she arrived suddenly had no notes or excuses when it was her turn before the judge.

Metts said the message was similar to that sent by the 21 arrests and by the recent arrests by Hayden’s deputies of truant juveniles believed to be on a burglary spree.

“Make your kids go to school,” he said.

Hayden did not sugar coat his reaction either.

“To me it says that the apple does not fall far from the tree,” Hayden said. “The parents of these children should be held responsible for the children's absence from school as well as the children.”
Hayden said his officers remain ready to act when Judge Metts uses the phrase “contempt of court.”

Metts said his mission is not to place people in jail for truancy, but to prevent the youngsters from throwing their lives away before they realize what they are doing.

[hooter]

  You go Judge!!!!! 

[Lucky]

Damn, I wish the rest of our judicial system worked as uprightly as this guys seems to ru his court.  He is sooo right on, “To me it says that the apple does not fall far from the tree,” Hayden said. “The parents of these children should be held responsible for the children's absence from school as well as the children.”