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Teacher here.One of those that often says, “I’m a teacher, not a babysitter.” My coworkers do the same.We say this when parents do things like:Send their clearly-too-sick-for-school child to school anyway. We have a single comfy chair in a darkened corner of a classroom where we allow students with headaches (or period cramps) to lie down for a single period. If they’re not over it by then, we send them home. We’ve had parents send their child to school and request that they basically spend the entire day napping in the headache chair.Complain about having to come back to school to get their sick child. “What? My kid threw up in class, so now I have to come back and get them? They should feel better now that they threw up, right? I can’t believe you’re going to make me come all the way there to pick him up if he’s already done throwing up.”Keep their children in after-school care or enroll them in after-school activities, not because the parents are working or because the child wants to do those activities, but because it’s cheaper than hiring a babysitter, and the parents don’t want to deal with their own children at home. This is a common problem with students who have major discipline issues. I’ve worked at schools that offer extended hours care for up to three hours after school is out. It cost $10 per student, and was intended for younger students (schools in Chicago are K-8) whose parents had to work beyond the end of the school day. But there were always a few middle schoolers mixed in with the little kids in after care whose parents were home and their houses were within walking distance, but the parents didn’t want to deal with their own children just yet. Inevitably, at least one of the worst-behaved middle school students had parents who made sure their child didn’t come home until absolutely necessary after school, preferably just in time for them to be sent to their room for the night. One parent would even come to the school at the normal dismissal time, pick up two of their three children, but tell the third one… the one with the discipline issues… to stay in after-school care for a few hours, then they’d come and get him.Expect teachers to monitor what students eat during lunch. “Mr. Bates, don’t let Timmy trade food with John during lunch anymore.” First, Timmy and John are both 14 years old. If they can’t trade food for allergy reasons, they should be able to figure that out on their own. Second, teachers aren’t even in the lunch room with the kids when they’re eating. Third, even if we were in the room, we’re not going to sit there and watch them like hawks to make sure they aren’t trading food. If your child is trading food with their classmates during lunch, and you don’t like it, that’s something you’re going to need to discuss with your child and, if you feel the need, come and sit with them yourself during lunch.Expect teachers to remind students when they (the students) need to take their daily medication. Does your child have special needs? No? Then it’s up to them to remember to take their medication at lunch. If they do have special needs, then the school nurse can help remind them. Don’t get mad at me because your perfectly-capable 13-year-old daughter forgot to take her medicine during lunch.Expect teachers to keep certain students separated from each other at all times, because one student’s parents think the other student is a “bad influence.” Look, I can make sure that they don’t sit near each other in my class. In between classes, during recess, and before and after school? No. If you want to hire someone to hover over your child all day and make sure they don’t speak to another particular child, do it. I am not that person, though.Expect teachers to monitor a student’s internet activity even when that student is at home. Yes, I’ve had parents who were shocked and blamed the teachers for not doing their jobs when they discovered that their little angel was staying up all night doing nefarious things online with their school-issued iPad or Chromebook. The second line in the waiver that parents had to sign before their child was issued the tech said, in nice bold letters, that parents are responsible for monitoring their child’s internet activity while the child is at home.Expect a personal email from every teacher every time their child is missing any assignment, acting out in class, out of uniform, etc… We put the grades online specifically for this purpose: so parents can monitor those themselves. About 25% of my students on any given day either don’t have their homework, act up in class, or are out of uniform. If it took, on average, two minutes to find their parents’ email and key out a personalized email for each one of these, I’d need a whole new planning period just to keep up.

I am so sorry for your incredible loss, regardless of the cause. It was proven your child passed from a vaccine?You aren't wrong for doing what you feel is best. Realize that kids are vaccinated at a certain age, and younger children that cannot be vaccinated due to an immature immune system are put at high risk for developing the diseases being vaccinated against should they get it from your child.It may be hard getting into a school and/or childcare if you haven't vaccinated your child; most schools require certain vaccinations or a signed waiver with applicable reason for the waiver. Simply not believing in vaccines isn't grounds for refusing vaccinating your child.

Parents are always responsible for their minor children, but they can leave minor children with responsible adults (and a twenty-year-old IS an adult) along with adequate financial support. Having your child stay with another adult is not abandoning the child. (Otherwise kids couldn’t even go off to summer camp!) It is always a good idea to leave detailed, written instructions and some kind of note or waiver allowing the person caring for the minor to give permission for emergency medical care. Also, have yet another adult, that can be quickly reached for back up.However, if anything goes wrong, and the arrangement doesn’t work out, or the responsible adult doesn’t turn out to be so responsible, let’s just say, hypothetically the adult caregiver, lets them use alcohol or something or peers come over and try to take advantage of the situation of the parents being gone, the parents could be held accountable at some level. What I mean is, parents have to answer for what their teenagers do, even if they do it without permission.Apparently you raised both these kids, so you know better than anyone if the older son is absolutely capable of taking on the role, including laying down the law as a guardian if needed, not as a cool big brother.EDIT: I also want to mention, that if the parents are separated or divorced, childcare arrangements may be spelled out in the parenting plan. If one parent arranges childcare that the other parent does not approve of, they can legally make a fuss about that—so always make sure to stick within the guidelines of those agreements.