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By Gina Gomez
Detroit, July 7, (THAINDIAN NEWS) Parents of schoolchildren in Detroit who give the parent-teacher meeting in school a miss could find themselves behind bars if a new law sees the light of day. If reports are to be believed, a prosecutor in the city of Detroit has come up with a suggestion that the lawmakers in the city should pass an ordinance which will land all parents who continuously refrain from attending a parent-teacher conference in jail.

Speaking in defense of her argument, Prosecutor Kym Worthy says that a parent-teacher conference is arranged so that the parents of all students may be aware of how good or bad their sons or daughters are at school. It is a way of gauging the improvement of a student and also a way of trying to keep the student from harm. So parents who do not attend such meetings are actually committing a crime.

Kym Worthy says that her report as it will be submitted in front of the lawmakers is still not prepared. She thus plans to deliver the same by next month to not only the county commissioners but also the lawheads of the state. Even though Prosecutor Kym Worthy has not yet delivered her study, the contents of the report are already being criticized. The Civil libertarians say that such an ordinance can never be made into a law. It is to be kept in mind that Adam Koenig, a Republican from Kentucky had submitted his own study which reads on similar lines and which was never accepted by the law.