"New Brunswick's School District 8 has decided its teachers need to start dressing a little better when they go to class.
A new dress code policy recently came into effect for the schools in the southern New Brunswick district where staff are banned from wearing T-shirts, shorts, sports sandals and blue jeans while at work - even on casual days..."
"The function of the child is to live his own life . not the life that his anxious parents think he should live, nor a life according to the purpose of the educator who thinks he knows best."
"Summerhill was the original 'free' school. Now its head, daughter of founder AS Neill, prefers to call it 'democratic', finds Peter Wilby."
(theguardian.com)
Parents Face Fines In New School Rules (June 30, 2009)- a lesson plan with audio "British parents could soon face a fine and prison if their children misbehave at school. Britain’s government wants to introduce tough new laws to improve discipline in schools."
"In an era when students talk back to teachers, skip class and wear ever-more-risque clothing to school, one central Texas city has hit upon a deceptively simple solution: Bring back the paddle...
Corporal punishment remains legal in 20 states, mostly in the South, but its use is diminishing...
Rules about paddling vary from district to district, but typically only administrators, not teachers, can mete out the punishment, which is done in private."
"The Parent Trigger is a historic new law that gives parents in California the right to transform their child's current or future failing school.
All parents need to do is organize -- if 51% of them get together and sign an official Parent Trigger petition, they have the power to force the school district to transform the school..."
(YouTube)
A parent trigger "is a legal maneuver through which parents can change the administration of a poorly performing public school—most notably, by transforming it into a charter school.
The first parent trigger law was passed by the California legislature in January 2010..."