wIn loco parentis has specific limitations; teachers are not parents.
Nobody is arguing that. Teachers are to act in place of parents.
Under tort principles of negligence, teachers owe the duty to protect students from foreseeable dangers. And in that way, teachers exercise supervision that a reasonable parent would exercise.
Did you know that teachers also teach that speaking when you are being spoken to is rude? That making armpit sounds can be fun but it's not appropriate when people are trying to accomplish other tasks. That just because the new students has a prosthetic hand, doesn't mean you have the right to nickname him Handy and refuse to stop when called him that when he asks.
Teachers provide cultural and social expectations. And do so when the parents can't be there.
Teachers merely have physical custody of the students during the school day, hence the crowd control requirement and the duty to teach academics, their sole function.
Repeating it does not make it true.
I'm not demeaning teachers, as you seem to think.
Oh, I don't think you are, but either way I couldn't care less.
I'm merely saying they have a very specific function and that function does not include teaching our children to embrace values outside of general values such as being kind and polite when responding, things like that.
BOOM and right there conflict can come up as who decides who is worthy of being treated with kindness, and politeness? And what other values?
Do you know how complex that gets? 98% of teachers wished more than ANYTHING that they ONLY thing they had to do was teach. Just hook up their brain to the machine, teach, assess, report, blah. That's it. Nothing else. We have to fill the roles of\ teachers, counsellors, psychologists, speech pathologists, social workers, therapists, nurses, Human Resources officers, accountants, family support workers.
Now we don't have to be those roles for
every kid. IF you do a good job providing for your child's needs (which I would imagine you do), your family would likely not need to see a teacher fill that role for you. BUT there are families that
ABOSULTELY DO need that role filled. And you would agree!!!
If I told you how I am having to handle a particular student in my class right now and potential CFS involvement and the reasons why, I'd like to believe that you'd recognize the story was not uncommon and that teachers do need to do more than just teacher.
Because some kids don't get to experience love or connection at home. And because so many kids prefer just hanging out on a phone than having face to face time with a parent.
Additionally, either actively or passively, some parents can create some ...or even just kids with no respect for themselves or others. And those parents teach values outside of what our culture teaches.
