It's not just kids. Parents are the same way.
Somehow this mentality that the schools have the authority to tell you what to do with your private, personal life has cropped up (no doubt aided by the teachers unions and other mindless jack booted thug perverts who want absolute control over others) and parents have swallowed it hook, line, and sinker. Now they can't think or make decisions for themselves without looking for the schools permission. Just the way some people like it.
And of course the children and parents are essentially powerless in the face of the public education leviathan, to the point that there is union of parents that purports to represent the interests of all parents.
Private schools allow for a much saner producer/consumer relationship, with individual parents having precisely the amount of power that's appropriate.
It seems crazy for a country of people who claim to respect the positive power of the marketplace to try and remove it from as many facets of our life as possible.
A few years ago some Dim proposed a bill that was supposed to combat “violence” in school. The bill proposed that when a student was involved in any kind of conflict which resulted in violence the principal would be given broad powers. He could require the parents to provide a list of any and all weapons the student had access to or were stored in the home. This specifically included baseball bats and butter knives in addition to other items.
If the parents refused to provide the list they would be committing a felony. Once the list was provided the principal could dictate how those ‘weapons’ would be stored. Once again it was a felony for the parents to fail to comply.
All of this authority given to principals under this bill. thank goodness it never passed but it shows how sick these people really are.