in loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent"[1] refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. Originally derived from English common law, it is applied in two separate areas of the law.
First, it allows institutions such as colleges and schools to act in the best interests of the students as they see fit, although not allowing what would be considered violations of the students' civil liberties.[1]
Second, this doctrine can provide a non-biological parent to be given the legal rights and responsibilities of a biological parent if they have held themselves out as the parent.[2]
I guess they are trying to apply that to virtual classrooms as well.
Yeah, but it's almost entirely meant to be used in situations where the actual parent or parents are dead or unable to act. So, the school thing would be used if say, little Timmy was off at boarding school and had appendicitis while the parents were out of the country. The school could act in loco parentis and authorize emergency surgery. Or the non-biological parents would be used if mom had died and dad had remarried, but then died before they ever got around to signing adoption papers so she would be Tommy's official new mom. The state could say, "okay, new mom has held herself out to be the parent, so she gets legal recognition and Timmy won't go into the care of the state as an orphan."
The school could act in loco parentis and authorize emergency surgery.
This is almost exclusively why it exists for schools. In case of emergency when seconds matter, schools can't wait for parental approval for every action.
Not in my house. You teach I monitor!
Because.......I AM THE PARENT NOT YOU!!!
in loco parentis, Latin for "in the place of a parent"[1] refers to the legal responsibility of a person or organization to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. Originally derived from English common law, it is applied in two separate areas of the law.
First, it allows institutions such as colleges and schools to act in the best interests of the students as they see fit, although not allowing what would be considered violations of the students' civil liberties.[1]
Second, this doctrine can provide a non-biological parent to be given the legal rights and responsibilities of a biological parent if they have held themselves out as the parent.[2]
I guess they are trying to apply that to virtual classrooms as well.
That does not preclude parent's presence.
In loco parentis implies the suborned position of the school vs the actual parent. The parent has primacy.
That's a legal way of saying they can "fuck off", right?
I had to check... and yup, that's a real thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_loco_parentis
Yeah, but it's almost entirely meant to be used in situations where the actual parent or parents are dead or unable to act. So, the school thing would be used if say, little Timmy was off at boarding school and had appendicitis while the parents were out of the country. The school could act in loco parentis and authorize emergency surgery. Or the non-biological parents would be used if mom had died and dad had remarried, but then died before they ever got around to signing adoption papers so she would be Tommy's official new mom. The state could say, "okay, new mom has held herself out to be the parent, so she gets legal recognition and Timmy won't go into the care of the state as an orphan."
This is almost exclusively why it exists for schools. In case of emergency when seconds matter, schools can't wait for parental approval for every action.
Sure. Go look up "Bong Hits for Jesus" for a real trip.
I thought it was "crazy ass fake parents", go figure. Plenty of batshit insane schoolteachers, after all.