[ladylib]

My parents never would have put up with the intrusion that parents put up with today, and schools usually knew better than to intrude.

My mother hung up on my fifth grade teacher when she called during dinner time about my choice of school friends. My mother told her to please mind her own business.

Perhaps today people feel that the government is there to help them; hence the blurring of the line between schools and families.

Schools should decide whether they want to be state nannies or institutions of academic learning. My guess is the former.

[LouD]

See my post #17 above.

The "intrusions" that I've seen have been entirely warranted. In the cases I've seen where social workers have become involved, that involvement was warranted. These people weren't Ozzie and Harriet, and intrusion by social workers is the least of their problems.