This past week I helped a fellow attorney select a jury in a case where the children when they were with mom had a large number of tardies and absences for no apparent reason. We lucked out with the jury panel. One of the members of the panel was a principal. I got to ask her about a dozen questions about the effect of tardies and absences on children. While she was not selected for the jury, she got the point across to the jury — parents who cannot get their children to school on time or allow their children to stay home for no real reason are damaging their children’s education.