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Originally Posted by Russ D
Special Needs or not, I see a BIG problem with it. If any adult, be they a police officer, teacher or whatever, so much as lays a finger on my daughter, they'll be in court faster than they can say "We need more holidays".
Discipline is down to the PARENTS and no-one else.
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When you send your child to school, you devolve a certain amount of your authority to the school in order to enable it to look after him (or her). That authority allows the school to act in the interests of the child, both in terms of their education and safety, and the education and safety of other children.
Parents who start banging the drum for their children's 'rights' and threatening court action just help to make the discipline problem in our schools worse. The kids now know that the teachers can't lay a finger on them. Without fear and respect for authority, authority crumbles. Clearly there needs to be a line drawn between what constitutes acceptable and unacceptable measures when a school is disciplining a child, but I certainly don't agree that discipline is the exclusive preserve of parents.
When parents devolve their responsibility to educate their children to a school, they must accept that they devolve powers to discipline as well, or else the whole system breaks down.