in loco parentis
| In a parental capacity. |
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| The rise of the new party culture can be attributed to a number of factors--the increase in the number of students living off-campus; the alcohol industry's targeting of college-age students; MTV's popularization of spring-break bacchanalia; student stress; and the long-ago demise of in loco parentis. The term parent is set forth in the FMLA to mean "the biological parent of an employee or an individual who stood in loco parentis to an employee when the employee was a son or daughter. To describe basic patterns of roles and relationships between educators and parents, the thrust of the article will be to outline three "narratives" of parent-educator relationships: the deficit narrative, the in loco parentis narrative, and the relational narrative. |
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