This is a very interesting September for me; it is my first one—as the principal of an elementary school—where one of my own children is entering Kindergarten. So, when asking nervous parents to “leave their kids and trust us”, I am very aware that I too am leaving my youngest in the care of someone else. It is good for us to remind ourselves, every day, that we are trusted with the most precious treasures from each of our school families, and that it is our moral imperative to make sure that the decisions we make for children should be the same as if they were all our children. In BC, the School Act uses the term “in loco parentis”, which refers to the legal responsibility for us to take on some of the functions and responsibilities of a parent. And, pushing moralities and legalities aside, the reason we are all here is the kids.
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