<p>The mere fact that you have accounts on this site tell me that you are all way too controling. Leave the process up to them. I see posts on here about cheating. Leave it up to them. We had some cheating at my school and a kid told his mom who reported it. The next day we had posters up all over the school saying " _______ is a snitch" and some of the more radical members of the class went so far as to slash his mom’s tires. The kid was forced to leave school. What wins out, morality or the social hierarchy?</p>
<p>I’m not saying its good that this happens. All I’m saying is that a school has a delicate social balance and outside intervention will often result in opportunities for others to move up the ladder and throw someone to the ground floor.</p>
<p>Sure, being moral is the higher road. What you have to consider are the long term effects. Snitching might get someone suspended, but its consequences will invariably be harder on the snitcher. As I said before, its a school is a rough place where people will do anything to move up.</p>
<p>Oh yeah, writing D instead of daughter is stupid. Are you on here so often you need to develop shorthand?</p>
<p>Perhaps if morality were the accepted norm, then no tires would be slashed. So you think it’s better to look the other way than to face tire slashing? Now I know why despots have control - people were to scared to stand up for what was right - don’t buck the system and lose all integrity. Better to allow the tire slashers to thrive than the honest people who strive for justice. BTW, many colleges have honor codes and turning in someone who cheats is part of your duty as a member of the college community. Those who condone it are equally as guilty. As for being controlling - my D thinks I should have stepped in more often - but she was doing fine, and I rarely stepped in. She is VERY independent, and does not look to me for everything. And control has nothing to do with this - it has everything to do with fairness. Kids expect fairness from adults in authority, and should get it!</p>
<p>Hentai, while all posters have the right to post opinons here, no matter how off-the-wall they are, they don’t have the right to be obnoxious like you. </p>
<p>For what it’s worth, it’s an easy call to make that the parents you disparage make far more valuable contributions to students and other parents than I can conceive of you doing.</p>
<p>In light of all of the above, I’m closing this thread but leaving it in place for a while as a cue of What Not To Do. While I’m at it, your posting privileges are permanently suspended as well.</p>