59 times! Now this is truly a lazy parent.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. (CBS) ― A Gainesville mother has been arrested after her daughter missed too many days of school, reports CBS station WFOR-TV in Miami.

The unidentified woman was charged with contributing to the delinquency of a minor after her ninth-grade daughter had 59 unexcused absences. Alachua County’s school attendance review board then filed a petition.

Alachua County Sheriff’s spokesman Art Forgey says it’s the first case in a while where a parent has been charged. He said the board is also reviewing other cases that could bring charges.

Florida requires attendance after 15 unexcused absences. District officials must then follow a process to work with parents to get their children to attend school.

Charles Hall, the district’s director for dropout prevention, says prosecution is a last resort.

Florida law defines “habitual truant” as a student who has 15 or more unexcused absences within 90 calendar days with or without the knowledge or consent of the student’s parent or guardian and who is subject to compulsory school attendance.

Across the country, prosecutors have tried to fight truancy, threatening jail time and fines for parents of children who chronically skip school. The moves are the latest step in the nation’s march to hold students to higher educational standards and to hold their parents to higher standards of accountability.

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This week a 7 year old boy wreaked havoc in an Australian zoo, slipping past security sensors and killing 13 reptiles before feeding them to a crocodile.

The attack happened on Wednesday morning after the boy entered the zoo by jumping over the security fence and evading sensor alarms.

Over the next half hour, he bludgeoned some of the animals to death with stones and hurled others over the two fences surrounding the crocodile enclosure.

At one point, he tried scaling the outer enclosure himself to get to “Terry”, the 11ft (3.3m) saltwater crocodile.

A turtle, four Western blue-tongued lizards, two bearded dragons, two thorny devil lizards and the zoo’s 20-year-old goanna were among those killed.

Zoo director Rex Neindorf said many of the animals were rare or mature and would be difficult to replace.

You can read the full story here.

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It looks like an Israeli couple took inspiration from Home Alone yesterday, when they forgot their 3 year old daughter at the airport. The couple were heading on a European vacation with their 5 children. They managed to get 4 of the children on the flight (80% isn’t so bad), and all 18 pieces of luggage (kudos for that), but left the little girl wandering the airport. They parents did not realize they only had 4 children with them until the airline notified them 40 minutes into their flight, after airport security found the girl. You can read the full article here.

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