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...bright. But it's also a typical Australian school in at least one way: staff are fed up with some of the parents. Last term, for instance, an infants teacher on car park duty recorded the details of a father who'd stopped in a no-parking zone. The dad charged at him with a raised fist, letting fly with language that kids would never find in their home readers. There was also the parent who couldn't understand why he'd been summoned to discuss his son's progress: "Why is this important?" he fumed. "Why is it important...
...aftermath to trouble, some high-schoolers use their mobile phones to spin a version to their parents before the school does. Many find it easy to paint themselves as innocents, and the next thing the teacher knows, the student's handing over a phone with the words, "My dad wants to talk to you." When an incident warrants suspension, says St. Margaret's Waters, "it's often at this point that parents have difficulty supporting the school's decision. That's fairly sad, because when they opt to support their daughter they're condoning the inappropriate behavior. On those occasions...
...there are as many as 2,000 cases a year in Australia of parents punching, pushing, threatening or verbally abusing school staff. Violence can haunt teachers even when they're not physically harmed. "After the bell one afternoon," recalls an infants teacher formerly based in inner-city Sydney, "a dad asked me how his son was going. I said he was a little restless, but it was near the end of term and all the kids were. The stepmother rang the school the next day and asked that we not speak to the father about these things...
...morning Chinese classes that his parents sent him to. When Victor said that he wished to pursue a career in the Los Angeles Police Department (L.A.P.D.), his father was pleased because, he said, it would set a good example for "others in the Indochinese community.'' Slightly annoyed, Victor replied, "Dad, we're Americans...
...while I appreciate guns, I also appreciate the need for gun laws. Without them, Dad's quip--"A well-armed society is a polite society"--holds true only if your idea of "polite" is something akin to HBO's Deadwood or the Sunni triangle. Which is why I'm perturbed by the Florida legislature's decision to pass a bill, signed into law by Governor Jeb Bush last week, allowing virtually anyone who feels threatened at any time and in any place to whip out a gun and open fire. The law decrees that a person under attack...