Suing teachers in Canada

The lawsuit claims the teacher hindered the student's learning by: - Failing to make his son record his first journal entry until two months into the school year. - Failing to make his son complete a handwriting workbook for the first three months of the school year. - Failing to provide more challenging work in spelling, reading and comprehension. - Failing to make the son finish a one-page poem and subsequently displaying the unfinished poem in the school hallway. - Failing to send a daily homework list home with the boy for three weeks, thereby "knowingly setting up the son for failure."

Are they trying to put the Onion out of business, because there is no way you can parody a story like this. I sure hope Canada has loser pays.

This is harmful in more ways than one. First is the idiocy of the parents suing the school for their son's failure or lack of work. This feeds into the "blame everyone else" mentality.

Secondly, it will require schools to take more control of the education process thus depriving involved parents from making decisions concerning their children's education.

By the way, if you didn't read the article, there is a nice quote by Mr Olson.