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Mom jailed for letting 10-year-old walk alone to town (reason.com)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Who's "them" and what is "the test"?

You needed a licence to drive a bicycle?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago (1 children)

School.

Hand signals.

No. Permission.

Schools are in loco parentis , and designate how to handle things mime these.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

With a term like that, it's not weird to link Wikipedia, but I actually would've understood it without it as well.

But here in Finland schools aren't in loco parentis for the trip to and from school. Only while school's in. That's why for instance schools here couldn't sanction pupils for fighting on the way home.