District Judge Jon Folmar says truancy can lead to the school-to-prison pipeline.
) - After being a prosecutor for over 30 years, one Crenshaw County judge wants to address a trend he is seeing in state prisons.
“Seeing a trend whereas I would have young men, usually in court who violated the law for various different things, that I had to send to the Department of Corrections, and I found that most of them were high school dropouts,“ said Folmar.He says the best way to improve this trend is to keep kids in school, which is why he introduced a truancy program to Crenshaw County Schools and Crenshaw Christian Academy.The judge says a similar model has been successful in school systems in Coffee County.
“We’re trying to teach responsibility because a responsible child becomes a responsible adult,” said Folmar.
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