Should it be law that parents held accountable for kids actions in Grades 1-12?

[Mitch J Gray]

Parents let social media be the new babysitters . How to "force" parents to parent again?

[Ungratefulgun292]

Sure! We don't have enough laws. We need even more ways to arrest people, put them in cages, allow the government to steal assets and destroy more lives.

[Troy]

NO. Its the schools responsibility. The parents should stay out of it and the teachers and school officials should quit trying to duck their responsibility.
Conversly, the schools and school officials should stay out of the business of telling parents what or how to teach tgheir children at home.
If it were expected that adults work 12 hours/day, all the unions in america would revolt, yet the teachers and school officials expect students to spend most of their day in school and then do several hours of homework every nhight. They are expert at blaiming parents if the kids don't do well in school.If the teachers and school officials truly wanted kids to excell in learning, they would extend the school day to end at 4:30 pm and use the extra time to see that all the kids did homework during this extra time.

[wendy c]

Oh wonderful solution...
so, every kid that even gets through 12th grade...will DO ANYTHING THEY WANT and it will ALWAYS be the parents take the "blame". NO child will ever learn to be responsible for their own choices. Come to think of it...that's pretty much how things are already headed.
Parents do parent. Its crap like this idea that PREVENT parents from teaching kids right from wrong..and ACCOUNTABILITY.

[Patrick B]

To a certain extent yes.

Many parents only get involved with their kids school work once the kid is failing or when the kid has broken a rule and is being punished, and at that point, they're not working with the school, they're working to get their kid out of trouble.

If a child is disrespectful, disruptive or violent, a teacher has no recourse. They can give detention (which kids don't care about) suspension (yay a few days out of school) or send the kids to the principal, who also has no real authority. If a teacher does assign a punishment, it only works if a parent backs up the teacher, which many parents aren't willing to do.

Parents treat schools like babysitters and nannies. They want the school to do all the work, until they disagree with how their child is being treated.