Honor Student At Texas High School Jailed For Missing School (Diane Tran)

Via KHOU-11/Huffington Post: "Diane Tran, a 17-year-old honor student in Texas, was forced to spend the night in jail last week after missing too many classes, KHOU-11's Sherry Williams reports. The Willis High School junior, who helps support two siblings, has both a full time and part-time job. She said that she's often too tired to go to school...".* Ana Kasparian and Cenk Uygur discuss on The Young Turks.

*Read more from Timothy Stenovec: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05...

Update - Tran will have conviction erased from record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlcE3d...

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[Pauline Potter]

Fucking hate America, the laws and shit are fucked up.

[Doogle946]

Fuck this country! It used to be great but shit got fucked up!

[ezzy bone]

the judge is old.. he dont know what are he doing.. stupid old man.

[1934853]

WHAT THE FUCK?

[probst9999999999]

wtf? Why the hell would they do that? If she has good marks let her do what she wants, who cares...

[LiLFuNC0]

The Answer Is Prison I Forgot The Question LMFAO AHhHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH­HHHHHH

[WackyDeli95]

There has to be a temporary halt on citizens bickering with eachother. We have to put our differences aside for a while and put the govt. back in place, along with big corporations.

[MrCharlestheman]

Sorry, what "great and dandy time" are you referring to?

[MrDarknessandDeath]

NUKE TEXAS!!!!

[Freak159753]

and they say that the germans are the "evil nazis."

these americans are the dumbshits on earth... it's a miracle how they still have the world biggest economy.

[Yong Yung]

Yeah I'm watching this from Germany and it's ridicolously funny. :D

[FreedomVengeance]

Schools aren't jails, they're a concentration camps. I don't think education should affect someone's health or life in a negative way. I have some good handful of advance class in my school and so far I've been getting head aches, stress. I even fainted three times when I got home from school and many times thoughts of suicidal thoughts about how I just want to shoot myself in a serious way. Don't get me wrong, I love teaching that has meaningful values and wisdom. However there is no such thing