Write to letters@thetimes.co.ukSir, Joanna Williams makes a commendable attempt to restore parents’ sovereignty over their own children (“Hey, teacher, leave those kids alone — and let parents do the parenting”, Weekend essay, Oct 12). We should also look objectively at the volume of children who are not toilet trained before starting school, poor attendance, rising levels of child tooth extraction, hunger, obesity, mental health problems, violence, knife crime and safeguarding, to name but a few challenges. These are real-world scenarios that schools have responded to out of necessity, in part because of gaps in parenting. The repatriation of responsibility might be possible if parents were regulated as tightly as teachers. Mona SoodSchool governor, Southend-on-SeaSir, When children cannot sit still because
