Just let it sink in that you can be put in a cage if the state doesn't have control over your child for a certain number of days each year.

Originally the mom got the case dismissed using an apparent technicality in the law.

Public education in that district was once only mandatory for 7 to 16-year-olds. Later a line was added saying that compulsory education was mandatory for 5 to 7-year-olds. But on appeal, the judge ruled that the new law did not overwrite the old one, it added to it.