Teachers have to be able to enforce discipline in the classrooms.
And, when students are disruptive, their parents have to back up the teachers. Thumbs down for a Savannah proposal to outlaw go-cups and the halt to work on the Truman Parkway. Thumbs up for a possible race track on Hutchinson Island. But what seemed to resonate most deeply for most of them were issues related to recent headlines about teachers being arrested for assault, on warrants sworn out by parents. What concerned this gathering was not only the root causes of lax classroom discipline, but also the feeling by public school teachers that they are not being backed up by parents.