NEWS: Teenage Girl Skips School Goes Directly To Jail

CULTURE: Teenage Girl Skips School Goes Directly To Jail

A German teen has traded the school house for the big house.

The judge who executed sentencing is obviously a touch insane. Poor Judge Andreas Pech exhausted when all other forms of punishment failed decided to play hardball.

But, prison is just the thing for hardened criminals and fifteen year old girls like Maggie who show no signs of remorse and repeated attempts at rehabilitation have only served to embarrass a judge. The prison sentence will be a loud message to delinquent German children everywhere who have to learn that adults aren't to be trifled with. Maggie assured the judge that given a second chance at community service she would not take it for granted, but the judge wasn't hearing it.

Yeah, that's right, talk to the gavel, bitch.

eh, She had two chances to follow what the court ordered. It's her own fault.

I don't think court orders are something to trifle with unless you've got a really good lawyer.

I know our prisons are already overcrowded with naughty people but can we start doing this in the States? Please?

Aren't prison and jail two different things?

Under the same circumstances, I think we do.

dayum.

Shit happens. Guess all it takes to really learn a lesson is to toss German salad...

Yes, when you go directly to Prison you DO pass go and DO collect $200 (or was that $250? inflation and conversion to EU currency be damned).

German potato salad, perhaps?

Haven't had that shit in years.

uhhh..."You should have GONE to class".


Jesus

Too many people go to jail for the wrong reasons as it is today. Truants have no business being there.

When truants don't go to school they end up in a dead end job. That is their jail.

I think the sentence was more related to the multiple contempt of courts.

Although, maybe if truants spent two weeks in jail (or prison...whatever) maybe they'd go to school. I mean, sure...a lifelong sentence of shit jobs is certainly a more reasonable punishment than two weeks in (wherever)...

God knows we need more angry, impoverished, undereducated people in America. Gettin' to be a shortage in my opinionation.

I think that's the idea buddy; she spends 2 weeks in jail and smartens up a bit. Maybe she does, maybe she doesn't, but she's being given a great chance to think about where she wants to go with her life.

Catholic School Girls Rule

Dirty hippies.

maybe she's standing up for something she believes in.People can become smart without school.

YES! that's what we need to do! Three Strikes for minors!!!

"You should have WENT to class?"

If only they taught grammar in prison also.

In the UK her parents would have gone to jail.

I was a bit surprised by the more than three weeks skipping on school being converted into two weeks of prison and did a little research.
MORE than three weeks is correct because almost a year is also just more than three weeks.
The girl was snetenced to social work. Told that the schedule for the social work was inconvenient and got a new schedule which she ignored. So she was actually asking not for a second chance but for a third chance on the social work (not counting the fines) after the sentence did sink in.
She was fined three times (maybe the three fines converted somewhere along the line into three weeks by mistake) and paid up not one - meaning that also did nothing.
The parents first protested agianst the two week sentence but withdrew the protest. They had after all not been able to take responsibility for the girl before.

The translation of the quotes is not fully accurate (but it shows the same inaccuracies in all English sources).

The judge who is dubbed as

said that he applied the law and voiced his regret that the law did not provide other measures.

Politicians especially of the "Green" party have taken up the issue already.

P.S.: It is ironic that the two weeks spent in a special Youth Ward will fall into school time and not vacation but probably se will attend classes in the ward... Where can she go?

The only belief she seems to be standing up for is that she can do whatever she wants with no consequences. Fuck her.

And you can be smart without getting an education, but nobody cares if you are, you have to prove it before anyone will give a shit.

I would like to volunteer myself for the job of Official SG Copy Editor. I swear, it's really fun for me. I think we could use it around here.

In other news, I guess she should have gone to class!

Here, "Prison" generally refers to Federal or State correctional institutions, while "Jail" refers to county institutions. Usually, prisons are for those convicted of more severe crimes or who have received longer sentences, and jail is for more minor things; for instance, here you can do 30 days in jail for an expired auto registration or 90 for expired insurance, and 2 years is the maximum you are SUPPOSED to be able to spend in county jail - a favourite judicial trick is to keep one in jail longer than the maximum possible sentence pending court so that even if you're able to prove your innocence you've already done your time. Most people would prefer jail, but here in Marion County, most former inmates seem to say they'd choose 2 years in prison over 6 months in jail. But tha'ts only in this county.

I don't know about German jails or prisons, though, nor how they translate from one language to the other.

Yes, a few commas might have been appropriate, as well. Grammar is often lacking here, as well as in many newspapers in print. People tend to be looser online, and deadline pressure and staffing problems account for many of the grammatical shortcomings in newsstand newspapers.

And, while I don't know if kids are jailed for truancy here, but we have had them arrested for Bayer aspirin packets.

Love, don't even bother. It's kind of a foregone conclusion at this point.