Schools principals and the need to discipline unruly parents

March 22, 2026 — 7:30pm

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Best practice in education has always been to encourage parents to be involved – children’s outcomes improve if parents can communicate constructively with teachers and support learning at home.

But increasingly, parents are being abusive and demanding towards teachers and making extreme demands on their time. It can be everything from insisting a child is in a particular class or particular camp, to harassing emails and outright intimidation.

The Minns government now wants to give principals power to ban adults who engage in threatening or abusive behaviour towards students, staff,........

© The Sydney Morning Herald