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Chris -- 2018-04-11
The original is a legal term, meaning ‘in place of parents,’ for the role assumed by schools, teachers and other authorities. This gets reinterpreted as ‘local parents,’ i.e., the parent-like figures in the vicinity. About 100 ghits:
We’ve said for decades that librarians can’t act in local parentis—in place of parents.
www.pnla.org/quart/f98/read.htm
Colleges need to help students and parents understand that ‘in local parentis” is no longer present today…
www.alfredstate.edu/alfred/NewsBot.asp? … nID=396386
Teachers and school administrators can act in “local parentis”, meaning they have powers…
forums.govteen.com/archive/index.php/t-17123.html
... there is nothing as vulnerable and as stupid as a 20-year-old with a weapon, and the officers are supposed to be what we call in local PARENTIS. ...
www.kaet.asu.edu/horizon/transcripts/20 … 4_2005.htm
In local parentis, if I am correct. It could also be ad local parentis, but I don’t think it is.
www.mrcranky.com/movies/adogofflanders/24/23.html
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