Teachers are worried about US-style legal action against schools, according to Keskisuomalainen.

The head of the Finnish Trade Union of Education (OAJ) was quoted as saying by regional daily Keskisuomalainen on Tuesday that the union's lawyers were kept increasingly busy settling disputes between schools and parents.

Olli Luukkainen, the chairman of the union, told the paper that today's parents expected teachers to do things that were not their job.
"Teachers are afraid of the increasingly common interventions by lawyers," he was quoted as saying.

Luukkainen said individualism and Americanisation were to blame.

Luukkainen added that he was concerned that teachers would become afraid of making mistakes, killing the creativity needed in education.
According to Keskisuomalainen the union wants the government to draft a set of groundrules for settling disputes between parents and schools.

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LEHTIKUVA  - TIMO JAAKONAHO