Loco Parentis Should Be Banned From Schools

Within the last month and a half, the words, ‘school shooting’ and ‘gun control’ has been on every citizen's tongue. Stoneman Douglas High School becomes the fifth largest school shooting in the US on February 14th, 2018. Debates about gun control and mental illness rage on, yet there is another issue that students have asked for that has been scarcely debated; whether In Loco Parentis should be banned from schools. In Loco Parentis translates “in places of the parents” and which gives the same legal rights for a teacher to be over the student, like a parent to a child. In Loco Parentis should not be banned from schools, leaving teachers as guardians of the student during school days. Teachers have not failed student’s safety yet, if the student is a minor they are not legally given full rights, and banning In Loco Parentis would not increase student safety or rights. …show more content…
It is also not audacious to say most teachers are parents themselves. Most are aware what it is like to care for children, in fact, if they are parents then caring for children is literally 24/7. Another point anti- In Loco Parentis do not realize is history has proved that teachers have not been the ones to fail student’s safety. The students of Stoneman Douglas are not protesting teachers of their school, they’re applauding them. The fingers are being pointed towards the NRA, government, and no option for mentally ill people. Teachers must also report if a student displays suicidal or depressed actions. Over the course of a school year, teachers become another parent to students, leading and helping each student