He’s not going to jail unless he violates probation
I am
certain that he will violate his probation.
Assuming that he actually gets monitored / tested well enough to catch him, he's as good as jailed.
This deserved more. 10/10 pun.
The fact that all five Rekieta kids are so over-scheduled is a huge red flag.
Maybe.
Part of this could be Nick and Kayla just wanting to give the kids stuff to do to keep the kids out of their hair. Part of this could be from a warped sense of how structured the kids' lives need to be.
But I also think that the kids might be so over-scheduled simply because the Rekietas live in a pretty rural area, and everything in it is so spread-out.
They don't live in a neighborhood where the kids could just walk down the block to play at their friend's house, or ride their bikes down the road to the nearby mall or park. I can't know where their friends live, obviously—but just from looking at the map, in order to actually see their friends (not just talk to them online), they probably have to be driven to some place miles away where an event is going on.
I grew up in a similar rural area with no other kids around, and the only time that I could try to make friends was at school or at hockey practice. The rest of the time, it was pretty lonely.
All of the activities that the Rekieta kids have might be one of the best things that they have going for them right now.
The regular outside contact might be the one thing keeping the kids sane while having to live with their cokehead parents. Getting them out of the house is what let others notice that they were being neglected, after all.
Please, you're among friends. We're all retarded.