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Noname1321Aug 31st 2010 12:19PM
One problem I have with jury duty is this: if you are a married woman with kids of school age, they assume you are free to do jury duty because the kids are in school. But what about those of us who homeschool? The courts don't recognize that, and what happens while I'm serving jury duty? Who teaches my kids? Who supervises them if they are young?
I was fortunate in that a hearing impairment got me out of jury duty permanently, but what about homeschoolers who don't have something like that?
dlgrnAug 31st 2010 1:04PM
@Noname1321
I have answered the call to jury duty every two years for the past 20 years, have always been released during selection because I'm a nurse, something they don't want during malpractice or injury cases. However, whenever my husband has been called, he tells the judge he is the homemaker responsible for our child, and up until she ws 16, he was excused because he is the primary caretaker of a child.
StrawberryAug 31st 2010 6:10PM
@Noname1321
Exactly! My sister lives in a mid-sized county in CA with low population. She's receives 2 or more summons a year because there aren't enough people in the county for jury selection. Years ago, she was a stay-at-home mom with 3 young children that she home schooled. Her and her husband only had one vehicle that he drove to work 40 miles in the opposite direction of the courthouse. She didn't have any friends who didn't have jobs themselves (to babysit) so her husband (who didn't get paid vacation time) would have to stay home with the kids. She would explain this every time and every time the judge would refuse her hardship excuse. She's only been NOT selected to sit on a jury 3 times in 13 years. Things got a lot easier once her oldest turned 12 (the age she could legally let her babysit the two younger ones). Viewing her situation, I concluded I will never be placed unnecessarily at the disposal of omnipotent, narcisistic, bastard judges who have no regard for the people to which THEY are supposed to be serving.