On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 18:21:08 GMT, "Leon"
wrote:


"J. Clarke" wrote in message
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On Sat, 3 Feb 2007 09:44:03 -0600, "Leon"
wrote:


"Martin K" wrote in message
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Leon wrote:



Well, one thing for sure, parents will not agree to meet with the
teacher,
always with plenty of reason why they can't schedule the
meeting.

Yeah, and another thing is for sure also. If the parents start being
fined,
99.9% of those excuses will start to disappear. The parents are going to
have the opportunity to schedule the meeting.

Why do you consider it so important that the parent appear at a
"school meeting"? Are you a teacher or something?

More importantly a one on one with teacher and or principal. I am not a
teacher and believe that too many teachers are ineffective. If you fail to
see the revelance you are probably one of those people that always points
the finger.

I see, you've made two attempt now to make this about me.

Personally I think that any teacher that can't handle the kids without
parental meetings should be fir^Hned.

Where do you live, Dream land? What public school will let a teacher
actually discipline a child without fear of a law suite?

If that is what you see as the problem then you simply need to make it
lawful for teachers to discipline children without fear of a lawsuit
rather than fining parents for not kowtowing to teachers' demands that
they appear in a certain place at a certain time.

But you are actually introducing Constitutional issues here. By what
authority does a teacher have the power to order a parent to be in a
certain place at a certain time? Teachers are not police or judges,
they have no power to issue warrants. I suspect that the courts would
toss any such law in short order.