Surely it is not reasonable for parents to leave the disciplining of their school-going children entirely up to them. A child typically spends six to ten hours in school, five days a week. This is a huge amount of time away from home. As child psychologists have rightly pointed out, there is a great need for rules and consequences to be enforced in a consistent manner in order for them to be effective. Consequently, children should not be subject to one set of expectations about their behaviour in school and a different set of expectations back at home. Ideally, the school and parents should work together to come up with a common set of expectations about student behaviour such that it minimises confusion on the part of the child.