In my teaching days, when I was appointed to a senior disciplinary post, I took the trouble to read the standard book supplied by the LEA called The Law For Teachers. This explicitly stated that the pupil was under the care and discipline of the school, in statu pupillari, from the time of leaving home until returning home. Has this situation been altered?

In any case, any teacher capable of the job should be capable of inhibiting his pupils from misbehaving in a public place, however much authority he might notionally have to do so.

Or so it was when Bess did reign and this old hat was new. If no longer so, O tempora. o mores!

~M~