"Wow. Make the parents, in some small way, responsible for their children. It is about damned time."
While I agree with your sentiment, I don't agree with the policy. So the dog pukes on my pants and shoes, now I have to change clothes and clean up the mess, now we are late for school, I am late for work, and the school is going to tell me I have to go to detention. Sorry, ain't happening.
How about I make the teachers come to my house for detention every time the tell my child something incorrect, fail to grade homework, or forget to send a note home with my child. Sh!t happens. The school needs to get over itself.
So the dog pukes on your pants...
So the dog eats the homework...
Parents have been abdicating their parental responsibilities since the dirty stinking hippies had kids. Teach the kid to clean up the dog puke. Teach the kid to hide the homework from the dog. Teach the kid that his/her responsibility is school and back it up by making sure that the kid gets there.
Hopefully this Big Brother step (I agree, it is) will be a clarion call to teach these deadbeats that their resposibilities are to rear their children properly. We have been paying the price (for 50 years now) for this lassitude.