Are Parents or Teachers in charge?

[Aiden]

Do you think teachers or parents are in charge of their children?

I think teachers have the real control. They generally have all legal rights and parents don't really have much choice when a school has made their mind up on punishment for a child.

[Kardan]

At home, parents. At school, teachers. Isn't that obvious? :P

[Phil]

Agree with Aiden. At home the teacher is hardly going to be in charge? Likewise with the parents being in charge at the school. Is there something I'm missing here?

[UnrealGoffEmo]

At Skool I'd be inclinded to say the kids Lol

[lawrawrrr]

In school, teachers have the status "in loco parentis" - meaning in the place of parents, which technically means that the parents are legally the most important. However, I believe that a teacher has much more influence on a child's life than it's parents do, and would classify most teachers as being fundamentally "more" important in the developing years of a child.


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home - parents

school - teachers

[Inseriousity.]

Parents. If they really wanted to, they could make a teacher's life hell by not supporting them. For example, a teacher gives your child detention but you could easily just pick up your child and it'd be too late before the teacher noticed. Luckily, most parents want to work with teachers rather than against them.

[Mikey]

If your parents don't take crap from the teachers (my mum was one of those parents haha) then obviously the parents but if you don't care about your children as much to do something about the way your child is being treated then the teachers.

[Chippiewill]

Parents. If they really wanted to, they could make a teacher's life hell by not supporting them. For example, a teacher gives your child detention but you could easily just pick up your child and it'd be too late before the teacher noticed. Luckily, most parents want to work with teachers rather than against them.

Absolutely agree. There was a case where a child was truant from school for more than six months and the parents didn't care to enforce it. The parents were served court summons and on the day of the case they just didn't turn up, process starts again several time and a child's potential is chucked down a drain until child protection services has a legal standing to take the child away.

[Inseriousity.]

Absolutely agree. There was a case where a child was truant from school for more than six months and the parents didn't care to enforce it. The parents were served court summons and on the day of the case they just didn't turn up, process starts again several time and a child's potential is chucked down a drain until child protection services has a legal standing to take the child away.

Quite ridiculous it took so long but I doubt the kid would've had much respect for an education anyway with parents not encouraging it.

[Demi]

At home, parents. At school, teachers. Isn't that obvious? :P

This is just right :)

[Cerys]

I agree with parents-home, teachers-school thing, but what I've seen is that for less serious punishments in school, parents can quite often get their kids out of it. So I'm gonna say teachers are in charge just at school, but parents are incharge both at school and home. If you see what I mean ;)

[dbgtz]

Really if the child plays their cards right, they have control. That's not even being cynical but I've seen it happen, a lot.

Out of those two, however, it is easily the parent.