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I posed the question while ago of whether phrase "In Loco Parentis" still had any currency within the education system. Clearly it appears, from Willow's posts and other threads, that the concept is fast going out of fashion, along with common sense and any understanding of what might constitute a reasonable method of equipping our young to handle the challenges which life directs at them.

While studying for my degree I shared a campus with others who were studying to be teachers, in sports and various other disciplines. The numbers of B.Ed students I encountered who were racist, bigotted, socially inadequate or just plain mad, horrified me. After three years in their company I left with the determination that, if I ever had children of my own, the very last people I would ever allow them to come into contact with would be teachers.

It is said that we remember good teachers all of our lives and that their effect on us has a profound and far reaching impact on our lives. Good teachers are rare. Bad teachers, on the other hand, are far more common, indeed they are ten a penny. But their effect on developing minds is scarcely any less profound or far reaching.

My advice, Willow, would be to complain - Loud and Long! Demand explanations. Demand action. These people are, supposedly, acting as parents to your children in your absence. You have a right to expect that they will guard your children in the same way that you yourself would.