The policy and attitude is that making the schools not responsible for what the child does, not academically or in any other way. Compulsory attendance statues employ the principle of in loco parentis . But when the children are at school, in answer to these statutes, the policy and attitude of the school is that the children themselves or their parents are responsible for the children. In other words, in loco parentis does not operate de facto , only de jure . This situation is known in logic and in the fields of organizational development and behavioral psychology as a double bind .
Double binds are ineluctable cyclical absurdities which are irremediable on their own terms.
They are a tactic of tyrants. When maintained on a significant mass of a population, double binds cause Jacobin rebellions. The schools are out of compliance with the compulsory attendance statutes. We need to develop profiles of teachers for the electronic environment we are heading into. Also, we need descriptions of hardware such teachers would use.