On Sat, 03 Feb 2007 20:13:39 GMT, "Leon"
wrote:


"J. Clarke" wrote in message
.. .

So why would a parent make the commitment to begin with and risk the
fine?

The appointmant will not be optional but will be fair to both parites.


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.

There you go assuming that the teacher can call all the shots again.


Someone is calling the shots. If the parent has the right to refuse
to make the appointment then what purpose is served by fining the
parent who for whatever reason manages to miss one? All you're
accomplishing is to guarantee that nobody in their right mind will
ever make such an appointment.

You assume that the parent will have the right to refuse that meeting. I
seriousely doubt that will be true. He will most likely be given the
benefit of attending that meeting when he can do so. The parent has to play
the gown up here and take responsibility for being a parent. What a
concept.

So you're saying that the parent doesn't have the right to refuse to
attend and can be subjected to criminal penalties for failing to do
so.

Make up your mind, can the teacher order the meeting and cause the
parent to be fined for failing to appear or can't she? You can't have
it both ways.

If the teacher can order it then the teacher is in effect issuing a
subpeona or arrest warrant, if the teacher can't order it then the
parent isn't going to risk the fine by agreeing to it.

You keep saying "liberals this" and "liberals that". The hallmark of
liberalism is more and more laws that intrude more and more into our
day to day lives. If you want to espouse a _conservative_ solution
then ditch the forced bussing and the parent will be able to walk to
the school. But you're too busy trying to find new ways to harass
people who already have too much on their plate to be bothered with
doing anything like _that_.

NO a liberal is one that wants more and more government and laws to cover
his butt, pay his way, and carry him along.

So how are such "liberal" programs as Welfare and national health
insurance "covering the butt, paying the way, and carrying along" the
liberal Congresscritters who already _have_ all that?

A law requiring you to be a
responsible parent is not liberal thinking.

Says the liberal trying hard to pretend to be a conservative.

Go ahead and look the other way and throw stones at those trying to make a
change in this broken system.

If you want to fix the system, arresting parents is not the way to do
it.