Comments on: Runs away with online chum; mom sues school

By: David Schwartz

David Schwartz — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 03:50:03 +0000

Why is this on overlawyered? You expect schools to keep your children safe, and if they fail to, they should definitely bear the consequences. Otherwise, what’s their incentive to care?

By: Jim Collins

Jim Collins — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 11:55:16 +0000

I have to disagree with you Amy. The schools are intruding into a student’s life outside school more and more these days. They are taking diciplinary actions for things that happen outside of the classroom. A few years ago my cousin’s daughter ran away from home and went to stay with a friend. She continued to go to school though, when my cousing found out that she was in school he went to the Principal’s office and said that he was there to take his daughter home. She said that she didn’t want to go with her father and the school prevented him from taking her. After that she stopped going to school. A few days later my cousin was fined because his daughter wasn’t in class. If the schools are going to unsurp the parent’s authority with their children then let the schools face the consequences.

By: Reformed Republican

Reformed Republican — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 16:18:23 +0000

It sounds like the parent WAS trying to be a parent. She did not want her child on the internet. The school allowed her child on the internet, despite the lack of consent. The school dropped the ball. She is not trying to control what other children can do. Also, the child was 15, not 18.

By: wavemaker

wavemaker — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:52:52 +0000

Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard. All doctors.

And I turned out fine.

(Well okay, some would quarrel with that).

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 05:44:25 +0000

I’m really tired of people subsituting legal redress for parenting. By the time your kid’s 18, if you haven’t done your job, you shouldn’t expect the already-spread-thin schools to do it for you. The same goes for all those people who seek to legislate what I can watch on TV “for the children!” Well, guess what? When I was a child, that wasn’t an issue, because, in my family, we weren’t allowed to watch TV, save the “Wonderful World Of Disney” on Saturday nights. What did we do the rest of the time? We read. I read about every single book in the Farmington Hills Public Library. At 12, I couldn’t tell you the names of The Three Stooges, but I knew who Raskolnikov was.