Clones of their Parents? Hardly. Children in a school environment are actually exposed to a large number of influences within just the schools themselves. Other children (dozens if not hundereds per day) as well as the exposure to adults of varying beliefs and even opposing beliefs and treatment than what the child's own Parents may believe. Have a Parent (even two Parents) try to teach a child "You don't have the Right to hit anyone and no one has the Right to hit you". Send them out in the world, even just school, and see how long your reasonable, intelligent teachings last. See how long it is before they are exposed to the dehumanizing "Boys don't hit girls" bigotted philosophy. It's that very philosophy which has led to so many boys being sexually molested by other students and authority figures for so long. It's that philosophy which has allowed so many male victims of domestic violence to either go unreported or become comedy skits to the authority figures who the situations are reported to. Instead of dehumanizing ANY group, we need focus on the act itself. But will you hear that in school? No. Why? Because the clones the schools want made may actually be obscene, perverse, and immoral. Influenced by religious bigots who want your children abused verbally, mentally, physically, and/or sexually based on differing beliefs, the slones being created by schools, not the Parents, and being manipulated by religious hate groups manipulating our own government, we end up with kids who actually oppose their Parents honorable, ethical teachings. But, when the kid acts out what the hate mongers in the school system, students and faculty alike, have fed your child, who do THEY blame? They don't take responsibility for THEIR actions. They blame the Parent. They blame popular media. BTW, the "babysitting" cliche is baffoonish. Since a Parent, for whatever reason, cannot attend every single hour of every single day with their child at school to make sure their child is safe. The adults in charge of the school, the teachers and other faculty members, should be considered the legal Guardians of these children. Sadly, unlike "babysitters", Parents don't get to pick and choose the Guardians of their children in the public schools or even in private schools. Parents have to realize that they may end up with adults who will, very possibly, expose their children to verbal, mental, physical, and/or sexual abuse, either directly or indirectly (by allowing the abuse to occur through other students or faculty members). Sadly, Parents have the difficult task of correcting their children of the obscene, bigotted, dishonorable, and unehtical garbage that comes from others, such as those in the schools. I don't want my child to be a Fred Phelps or an Eric Rudolph or a clone of one of those sociopaths who fought against the Anti-Abuse (Anti-Bully) law this past summer. Unfortunately, I don't have control over who teaches him in school, or what authority figures he comes in contact with at school, or the other students at school. Andrew