Sir Michael “Take no prisoners” Wilshaw is on record, in an interview with The Times as saying that parents who miss parents’ evenings or let children get away without doing homework should be fined. When he was a head he would tell such defaulters that they were “bad parents”.
Many teachers, even if they have doubts about applying fines, will recognise the feelings behind that. Chances are they, like me, will have often said, or heard in the staffroom, the day after parents’ evening: “Of course, the ones you need to see never turn up.”
I guess that what we don’t say nearly so often is: “I wonder why they don’t come?”
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