Child discipline is a hot topic these days because of a news story coming out of Quebec: a Quebec court judge ruled a father didn't have the right to punish his 12-year-old daughter by preventing her from going on a school trip.
Madam Justice Suzanne Tessier of the Quebec Superior Court sided with the Grade 6 student who challenged, in court, her father's decision to ground her. The girl had been living with her father—the parents are divorced—and he forbade her to attend a school trip after she disobeyed his instructions to stay off the Internet.
What do you think? Did the court undermine a parent's effort to discipline his child? Is there symbolic weight to this ruling?
READ: in The Globe and Mail