Children need to be more frightened of their parents – frightened enough, at any rate, to get out of bed and go to school.
What happens when the staff are frightened of the parents? I am not pusillanimous by nature. When it comes to the old fight-or-flight instinct, I am fight every time. I pull myself up to my full 5’3” and look the aggressor in the eye. This did not work last month when I was