**Lawyers have created an environment where teachers cannot function. **
May I respectfully differ.
I blame all the unqualified administrators who were hired as a part of *affirmative action* programs in all the large urban centers across the fruited plain in the 70s and 80s.
Not one of them would stand up to a parent [or child] who needed discipline. Many people blame the unions; that is not entirely true today b/c the teachers unions have lost the clout they used to have.
Principals and VPs are infused with a let’s all get along attitude. They are unwilling to take a stand. On anything. Most want to collect their lovely pension and leave after their 20 years. Most do not leave their office to see what is really going on in the classrooms. Admin is full of incompetents.
In my 33 years in the inner city, I had one VP [who didn’t stay long]. He happened to be a battle hard Marine and *nothing* would get by him. He was as tough on the parents as he was on the kids. Everyone knew where they stood. He would stand behind a teacher and enforce the rules. Great guy to work for.
Lawyers have created an environment to where if the teacher does anything, they and the school can be sued. So many parents don’t discipline their children and schools aren’t allowed to do it either. Schools should be able to tell parents that their kids better behave or they’re going to have to come up with another plan as to where to put their child.