Getting kids up in the morning to get ready for school and actually getting them to school on time seems like mission impossible for many moms, however, after one mom’s car kept breaking down, it pretty much was.
25-year-old mom Nicole Garloff was on her way to school one morning to drop off her 6-year-old son Hunter when her Dodge Durango broke down again.“[The school has] a policy where every three tardies, you get a detention,” Garloff said. “Every tardy after that, you get a detention.” And since Hunter had already been late a few time after the family’s car broke down, they knew he’d be getting a detention that day.
Garloff was heartbroken when she finally got her son, who was in tears, to school and even though they were only a few minutes later, the school gave him detention.
Garloff knew how upset her little boy was, so she decided to stop by during lunch time to make sure he was alright, but as she walked in she finally realized why Hunter was so scared of getting detention.
“He was at the first table as you walk into the cafeteria, and he was just sitting there with one of those cardboard poster partitions in front of him … and two or three books next to him,” Garloff said. Normally, late students are forced to make up missed work during the lunch detention, but since Hunter didn’t miss anything, the teachers gave him a book to read while they basically shamed him in front of the entire school. “I was really upset. I went and got my iPad and took a picture of him. He wasn’t tardy so many times that he deserved that.”
After Garloff shared the upsetting photo on social media in the spring of 2015, however, the community rallied around her and her family and fixed up a donated 2001 Chrysler Town and Country van to the family.
Aside from the new car, the school also announced that they would be improving their late policy.“As a result of the concerns raised, the district ended the learning catch-up location at Lincoln Elementary School,” the Grants Pass District said. “Going forward, a separate, supervised classroom has been designated for necessary catch-up work.”
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