What do you reckon, if they took a poll, the result would be if you asked all parents with school-aged kids whether taking a school to court over a place on a sports team is good parenting?

I reckon 94 percent to six percent. The six percent being the clowns who support it.

What these parents have done is undermine every school in the country. They have given every decent parent a bad name.

As it turns out, like most other parents with school-age kids I have a bit of experience with this.

One of our kids went on a school trip recently. It was overseas. It was taken so seriously it made your eyes water. There were forms and consents up the wazoo. Our kid was under no illusion what was required by way of behaviour. Our kid was under no illusion as to what would happen to them should they step over the line. Our kid was so fearful of doing the wrong thing by the school, that on their day off, he got dressed in his school number ones, complete with tie, to go to Dreamworld.

We also have in our house a kid of similar age to the conveyer belt jumpers. I can assure you he would not even consider in his wildest moments that breaking the law by doing what these kids did was in anyway acceptable.

These kids were not just mucking about or having fun, they were breaking rules and laws, and any kid with his head screwed on in a half decent way knows fully well there are basic things in life you just don't do:

Run on air airfield tarmac, jump on the conveyer belts, lie on railway tracks, jump in front of cars, point toy weapons at people. How long do you want the list to be? And that's anytime, far less representing your school.

Even if you want to try and mount an argument about behaviour, what you simply can't get past is the code of conduct contract.

It's a deal, and a deal is a deal. The moment you try and not make it a deal it goes to show who you really are. What you really are is dishonest. If you are not prepared to stand behind an agreement, it means you can't be trusted. It means the rules aren't the rules. The rules are only the rules if you want them to be, or if it happens to suit you.

What these kids are being shown by those who are supposed to be sending them out into the world, robust, decent, upstanding and honest participants of society, IE. their parents, is:

'Don't worry', the rules don't apply to you'

'Don't worry, we've found a loophole'

'Don't worry, we dug up an excuse'

If I was this lot I'd be ashamed.

If I was the kids I'd be mortified.

If I was the principal I'd be ropeable.