Father Jailed after his daughter failed to get a high school diploma--how do you feel about this?

CINCINNATI - A man ordered by a judge to make sure his daughter studied has found himself in jail because she failed to earn a high school equivalency diploma.

Brian Gegner, who lives near Cincinnati, was sentenced last week to 180 days in jail for contributing to the unruliness or delinquency of a minor.

He was ordered months ago to make sure his 18-year-old daughter Brittany Gegner, who has a history of truancy, received the diploma known as GED 鈥?something that hasn't happened yet.
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Brittany Gegner, who said Monday that she plans to take a required GED test this month, said her father shouldn't be blamed for her failure because she has been living with her mother.

"It was my wrongdoing, not his," said Brittany Gegner, whose fiance and 18-month-old daughter also live at her mother's home. "He shouldn't have to go to jail for something I did."

Her mother agrees.

"Brittany is almost 19 years old now and I think it's unfair to put her father in jail," said Shana Roach. "She's an adult now, and it's not right to rip an innocent man from his home."

Juvenile Court administrator Rob Clevenger Jr. said Monday that the court still has jurisdiction in the case because Brittany Gegner was a juvenile when the truancy problems began and when the charge against Brian Gegner was filed in 2007.

A hearing on a motion filed by Brian Gegner's attorney to reconsider the sentence is scheduled for Friday. Messages seeking comment were not returned Monday at the offices of defense attorney Tamara Sack and the prosecutor.

Brian Gegner's wife, Stephanie Gegner, said she and her husband are afraid he will lose his job if he remains in jail. She said they tried to keep his daughter in school.

"You'd take her to school and she'd go out the other door," Stephanie Gegner said.

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It is a ridiculous nanny state attack on a non-criminal. People are allowed to quit school after they turn 16. I think the courts should focus on criminals. They should have more important things to do than this. It is not illegal to quit high school.

at that age the kid is basically an adult .. i think at age 16 kids should be held accountable for thier truency .parents drop them off at school , they go into school run out the other door .

reminiscent of gestapo or kgb tactics. ohio, what do you expect....

It sounds like her mother is the one who should be in jail.

That judge is on crack. She's 18, she should be responsible for herself.

Seems to me that the Judge is Nutty

I don't believe it is right to take action like this after the fact. Undoubtedly this is a low-brow family who took little interest in disciplining their daughter. For that I know a few people who should be punished! But with the shift of societal values some children couldn't care less about education, like this young girl. To that I say, good riddance! I mean, what is the point in having high-school be mandatory? You can always go back and get your GED! The fact is a high school diploma isn't as valuable a thing as we'd all like to believe it is. You can still get into a good community college with a GED and work your way up to a university which is what a lot of people have to do because of the cost anyway. I also know lots of people who just have a GED and make more than me with a high school diploma. The only ones having a GED would negatively impact would be the higher classes of wealth and their children who are trying to get into Ivy League schools and I'm sure they are en grained with the idea of proper education. For the average Joe, not so much.
Again, I don't believe this case was ruled justly but make no mistake, I DO believe in proper education!

I don't have all the details. This is pretty harsh, so there has to be something behind it. A judge just doesn't arbitrarily bring the hammer down this hard. And my question for the mother and the daughter, if Dad meant so damn much to them, why didn't they take the judge seriously? The only ones to blame is them.

It is a parent's responsibility to make sure their children obey the law. However, she DID take the test, so I think it is unfair to jail him just because she failed it. It's not his fault that his daughter is retarded. I took a harder test than that when I was 15 and passed just fine on the first try (I got my diploma, not GED). Anyway, if I can do it, it's not THAT hard. I'm not a genius (I just refused to go to high school, lol). I know how this family feels. I was becoming a delinquent kid, too... but I took the stupid test, passed, and then immediately starte junior college. Even if I hadn't gone to junior college, my mom would not have been jailed. That would be stupid.

This whole article is stupid.

I like this, but not as much as restricting driver licenses until students earn a high school diploma.

Children desire and ambition to graduate must be instilled and supported by the parents starting at a very young age. I think the possibility of jail time might wake children and parents up enough to do what they should have been doing all along.

Here is the process that is currently in place in the US and other Countries.

-Corporations own the majority of money in the world.
-Corporations own the mainstream media.
-The majority of people don't have time to research topics so they rely on mainstream media for all of their facts.
-Mainstream media persuades (brainwashes) people to think that they need more government spending of any kind; war, healthcare, etc.
-Corporations buy the majority of government bonds
-The brainwashed public vote on those politicians who pose to implement that new service or war into society.
-The government doesn't have any saved money so they borrow money via government bonds from those corporations
-Taxes are raised to pay back those government bonds plus interest.
-People now have to work harder to make up for their loses that went to taxes.
-The majority now works more which means they are researching less.
-The majority now relies even more on the mainstream media for their information.

The cycle goes on and on until the US national debt is in the trillions. Interest alone is in the hundreds of billions. Those corporations now make more on interest than they do by selling their products or services. So now to make the most of their money they have to work off of this process. (If you are a CEO, you have to do your company the favor and make them the most money possible, even if it means putting a tax burden on millions of tax payers).

All of the 2008 republican and democratic presidential candidates are part of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). So if you vote for a Republican or Democratic politician, you are voting for the same thing. The CFR plans on uniting North America under one financial system. That means that the millions of illegal Mexicans will have to start paying North American taxes. That means that corporations can dig the 9 trillion dollar debt even further without the average tax payer noticing which means that the interest that is made will be even greater.

People have to be brainwashed or this countries people could turn against its leaders and this country would crumble.

If an adult is forced to be the enforcing officer to make the young go to these brainwashing sessions than that parent is liable if the child doesn't go.

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