Tanya McDowell is in trouble. She's homeless. She lives in her van. She's charged with stealing $16,000 from Norwalk, Connecticut, taxpayers for enrolling her son in a school district she doesn't live in by using a false address. She's got lots of people supporting her. They say that the law allows a homeless person to enroll her children in any school district she chooses.
But being the skeptic that I am, I have some questions about that. If that really is the law, then why didn't Tanya just tell them she was homeless and enroll her child? The false address she used belonged to her babysitter. Since Tanya is homeless and jobless, why does she need a babysitter? How does she pay the babysitter? And why is Tanya unemployed? Well, it seems that she has a drug charge pending against her -- that's not counting her prior criminal record.
Tanya's little boy has been removed from the school and returned to the district where she last lived. She still has relatives there, and they are caring for the little boy. The NAACP says all this is because Tanya is black. I suspect it's because Tanya's a crook.
"Connecticut mom charged with lying to get son into wrong school." The Dallas Morning News; April 28, 2011; p. 8A.
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