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Black Mother Jailed for Sending Her Kids to White School « Student Activism

Black Mother Jailed for Sending Her Kids to White School « Student Activism

Black Mother Jailed for Sending Her Kids to White School

(I stole the headline for this post from one by Boyce Watkins, who has a thorough and well-worth-reading rundown of the story.)

Kelly Williams-Bolar, a black single mom in Akron, Ohio, was convicted of felony records-tampering charges and sentenced to ten days in jail for registering her kids for school at her father’s residence rather than her own. She lives in the projects, her dad lives in a good district, and he’s facing a felony grand theft charge for “stealing” two years of public school for his grandkids. Oh, and her felony conviction means that she’s going to have to give up