A 26-year-old man is charged with sex crimes after enrolling in a public school district in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he pretended to be 17, police say.

  • stevedidWHAT
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    182 years ago

    Jesus Christ how the fuck do you allow people to enroll without a fucking social security number bro what

    Are these states okay? I feel like florida is leaking

    • @Blamemeta
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      92 years ago

      Its a public school, and not every kid is going to have a ssn.

      • stevedidWHAT
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        32 years ago

        Please explain. Far as I know, if you’re a citizen of the US you have an ID tied to your DOB (unlike a physical license which in theory is easier to fake rather than having a remote db of this info)

        It is inexcusable that this school couldn’t figure out how to positively fucking identify someone’s age. Imagine having children in this era of “we have to account for everyone’s circumstances or nobodies at all”

        • @Blamemeta
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          182 years ago

          Think immigrants. And you don’t have to be a citizen to go to public schools.

          • stevedidWHAT
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            The US govt has IDs for all of these things. I do not subscribe to a model of all or nothing either.

            Something is better than nothing.

            Edit: edited to remove purposeless jabs at someone who was just trynna answer my question

            Sometimes I do the dumb

            • @SomeoneElse
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              132 years ago

              It’s not blamemeta’s “model of all or nothing”. You asked them to explain why schools don’t require SSN or why some children don’t have them. They told you two reasons why.

              • stevedidWHAT
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                132 years ago

                You’re right thanks for the second look and for bein pretty patient

                • @SomeoneElse
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                  102 years ago

                  No problem, happens to the best of us sometimes. How refreshingly civil is Lemmy’s comment section compared to Reddit’s toxicity?!

                • @TenderfootGungi
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                  12 years ago

                  IDs. States issue formal IDs to non-drivers. We got one for our kids before traveling abroad (and passports). It looks just like a drivers license.

  • ArugulaZ
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    142 years ago

    Once I left high school, I had no desire to return. Why people would willingly go back will forever remain a mystery to me.

      • PenguinJuice
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        12 years ago

        He wanted to sent pictures of his genitalia.

        Dude could’ve just gone to college and gotten the same result without being arrested.

        Or maybe he would’ve.

  • Shambling Shapes
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    12 years ago

    Excerpt from linked article:

    During a news conference Friday, Lincoln Public Schools superintendent Paul Gausman said Scheich had enrolled by submitting a birth certificate, an out-of-district high school transcript and immunization records.

    “All those documents turned out to be fraudulent,” said Gausman.