Parents and Schools

[Erikus4@aol.com]

One thing I keep hearing in the media is that parents generally object when 
the school attempts to discipline their kid, and rather than fight it out 
with the parent, the school caves and gives lesser discipline.

I do not have children now, and just wonder if this is the feeling that 
parents or school administrators here have.

A radio program indicated that a teen back east somewhere was expelled from 
his school for making death threats against the principal.  His parents are 
evidently suing the school for infringing his 1st amendment rights . . .

The other thing I'd like to mention is the apparent lack of willingness to 
BLAME the parents of these kids.  I realize they don't bear the entire burden 
of this situation, but who else had these kids for seventeen years?  Blame 
away.  These parents screwed up.  These kids manufactured dozens of bombs 
without the parents figuring anything out.  These kids reportedly did school 
projects on their gun collections.  These kids dressed in lots of black and, 
reportedly, wore Nazi/German insignia as jewelry.  These parents were not 
paying attention, didn't care, or are just plain stupid.

What's so wrong with blaming them?  No one knew these kids better than the 
parents - except possibly the friends of these kids.

E. O'Daniel