Gil Werntz also recalled being disciplined for acting up at school, and then disciplined again at home if he complained. Students are telling teachers they won't listen to them. Or that Mom or Dad will sue them. Werntz worried about the consequence of this sort of behavior, when these children grow up. You can't always have someone bail you out.
Parents come down on the side of kids.
Frank A. Phillips Jr. linked some breakdowns in classroom discipline to the rising trend, over the past generation, for both parents to work. But Kelley Brock and Mallard said many families need both paychecks. Whether the tobacco industry has a legal obligation to smokers who die of cancer. The likelihood of nuclear war between India and Pakistan. Then suddenly Castro brought it all back home.