Mother charged with unlawfully entering school bus to help a son she thought was ill

Perry County mother charged with unlawfully entering school bus to help a son she thought was ill
Published: Saturday, July 23, 2011, 12:00 AM Updated: Thursday, July 28, 2011, 9:45 AM
SARA GANIM, The Patriot-News By SARA GANIM, The Patriot-News

If Tara Keener had known that her 5-year-old son was only sleeping, she might not have acted this way.

But Keener, an emergency room nurse, didn’t know. All she knew was what she could see through the windows of a big yellow school bus as she walked down her Perry County driveway. Other kids were standing over the kindergartner’s assigned seat, yelling that Xander was slumped over.

“Help, he’s not moving,” she recalled during a recent court hearing. “We can’t wake him up.”

So she ran to the bus, up the steps and to the landing. The driver told her she couldn’t get on the bus. It’s against the law.

Keener kept going. “My focus was on my son,” she told a judge.

What happened on that bus Dec. 15 has earned Keener a misdemeanor charge of unlawfully entering a school bus. She’s now awaiting trial in Perry County Court. FULL STORY

I left a nice comment there-

So now you give up all Parental Rights when your child gets on the School Bus? And apparently you surrender your professional training to react in emergency situations too.

"Parents give up their rights when they drop the children off at public school." --Federal District Judge Melinda Harmon

Judge Harmon made that ruling against the parents after the parents sued a Texas school district. Their son had been questioned at school without their knowledge, and strip searched by a female Texas Children's Protective Services worker looking for signs of paddling the boy's parents had allegedly administered. -Wall St. Journal 10/8/96

It really makes you wonder how much worse it has to get before people realize how badly families are being treated by the system now.

We highly recommend people go to ParentalRights.org (http://parentalrights.org) and support the Parental Rights Amendment. Also recommend to your Senator to support SR99.

Leonard Henderson, co-founder
American Family Rights
http://familyrights.us
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