Parents Should Be Held Responsible For Their School-going Children's Discipline Problem

[ It's not really important, we can discuss in the comments after the debate. ]1. Children should develop their own individual Responsibility earlier.I agree that "parents should know how to resolve such situations and teach their children to do the right thing." Indeed, this is why parents are considered responsible. It is their job - their responsibility - to teach their children these things as to avoid disciplinary issues. When disciplinary problems arise, it is considered to be a failure on behalf of the parents. Even when it is not a failure, it is still upon the parents to rectify the situation through additional teaching.Parents being considered responsible doesn't prevent children from developing their own individual sense of responsibility. Rather, it is a recognition that this is a gradual process over which the parent has authority and - with that authority - responsibility. Instead of interpreting parental responsibility as being exclusive to childhood responsibility, it is more accurate to think of it as being hierarchical. Society holds the parent responsible; the parent holds the child responsible. Thus the child learns responsibility in a controlled environment, rather than being tossed to the wolves of public scrutiny.Lastly, it can be argued that parental responsibility is necessary to teach childhood responsibility. Children learn by example and the example that holds the most influence is that of their parents. Regardless of what the parent teaches through words, if those lessons are not support by examples, by the parent behaving in a consistent manner, then morals of those lessons won't take hold. In order for the child to learn responsibility, the parent must behave responsibly.2. Children usually have the attitude of Authority Aversion.Aversion to authority doesn't absolve the responsibility of that authority. Would my aversion to the authority of the police absolve them of their responsibility to society as it regards my behavior? No. If I break the law, they are responsible, to society, to execute that law, whether or not I am averse to their authority. Likewise, parents are responsible for their children's behavior regardless of the child's aversion to authority. As Pro stated: "parents should know how to resolve such situations and teach their children to do the right thing." Those lessons are all the more important through independent and rebellious streaks.Pro continues to portray parental responsibility and childhood responsibility as being mutually exclusive. I reiterate that they aren't exclusive, they are related. Pro's suggestion that "children are the only one that should be held responsible for their own actions" is dangerous as well. Parents are also responsible for the safety of their children. To say that only a child is responsible implies that they can be punished directly by third parties. Yet who is to say that the punishment is just, fitting or appropriate? While no parent is perfect, as a convention, we leave the discipline of the child to the parents, and then hold the parents accountable for the child's behavior.3. Failures can never be avoided.The existence of failures or flaws does not mean we should abandon the entire strategy. The point of raising a child is to ensure that they can successfully integrate into society in an independent fashion and continue to behave without direct supervision. The teaching of these lessons must come from the parent, and they should be held accountable for the failings of those teachings. No one expects that the process go completely smoothly or predictably or without flaws, and we accept that (for the most part).The idea that if something can't be don't perfectly then we can't do it seems extreme. Pro admits that the parent knows best, but then removes the parent from the equation and holds the child responsible. In order to remedy any disciplinary problems, the child must be taught from some source and, in so teaching the child, that source would be responsible for the outcome of those lessons. If not the parent - who knows best - then whom?