You know, the really amazing thing is how pushy these “authorities” are until something bad happens.
However, whenever one of the numerous social misfits and malcontents in the public schools causes an incident, they immediately begin to bray about the responsibility of the parents and their failure to inculcate their children with acceptable moral values or to monitor their little darlings to prevent tragic incidents. Aftwards, there is usually an investigation that points out numerous failings, omissions, and shortcomings. Then everything goes silent with no real change and no real punishment.
Well, except for adding another punishing layer of restrictions on everyone in order to “create a safe environment for our students.”
Bureaucracy is a terrible thing. It operates with workers whose jobs have defined parameters that do not include how to effectively deal with abberations. Schools have one recourse and that is to suspend students. In other words, when their amoral and often immoral guidelines fail to produce the outcome they seek, the result is temporary dismissal whereby they hope the parents do something. However, if during the school year the parents have an opinion or a demand, they are systematically denied a voice . Like all things governmental, the inherent position is that they know better than the parent.