When choosing a better school is a crime

This is how the Associated Press describes the story...

Tanya McDowell, the Bridgeport mother accused of fraudulently enrolling her son in a Norwalk school and stealing more than $15,000 in educational services from the district, has pleaded guilty.

McDowell was sentenced to 12 years in prison, suspended after five, and must pay back up to $6,200 to the city of Norwalk for stealing her son's education.

McDowell's 12 year sentence also includes four counts of drug possession and sale charges, which she pleaded guilty to on Wednesday.

McDowell was homeless when she was charged with felony larceny last year. Authorities allege she enrolled her son in kindergarten in Norwalk using a babysitter's address when he should have attended Bridgeport schools, where her last permanent address was.

Ask yourself this: If you were homeless and believed education was the only way your child could avoid your fate, would you lie to the government if it securing that education? Would you vote to convict a parent who did the same thing?

(h/t Chris L. Hayes)