- HOUSTON (Reuters) - The parents
of students at a Houston middle school who tell teachers the dog ate their
homework or the cat ripped it up are getting an unusual response: tell
it to the judge.
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- At Houston's North Shore Middle School, the parents of
students who habitually fail to complete their homework and miss a mandatory
afterschool program are being summoned to court, school officials said
on Thursday.
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- The school this week issued 48 misdemeanor criminal citations,
similar in severity to a traffic ticket, to those students' parents. The
tickets, which could have yielded a fine of up to $185, required parents
to appear on Wednesday before Harris County Justice of the Peace Mike Parrott.
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- Parrott did not fine anyone, but used the session to
set an example and explain the importance of finishing schoolwork, he said.
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