Parents -- (applause) -- you can't complain about the schools and complain about the teachers, but when your child comes home, they're playing video games and not doing homework, and you don't have time to go to your teacher and parent -- teacher-parent meeting.

WHITEHOUSE: Town Hall in Los Angeles

It later emerged that the council portfolio holder for children's services was also the subject of a complaint following a comment he made at a meeting with the parent carers council in 2010.

BBC: Cornwall Council

"I don't want to see the land and the building stay empty and broken, " one parent said during a town hall meeting Sunday night.

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One of my first steps was to set up a meeting with the Kansas Parent Information Resource Center (KPIRC) to discuss our approach to involving families.

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Maria Morgan, a parent at the school, attended Thursday night's meeting.

BBC: Kings Monkton school

About 14 years ago, when I was a parent of young children, as preparation for a talk at a doctors' meeting about vaccines, I surveyed (rather informally) parents - mostly mothers of course - waiting in the playground of our local primary school.

BBC: 'The natural benefits of vaccines'

Cardiff Devils Ice Hockey Limited plus parent company Celtic Leisure Holdings PLC issued a public notice earlier this month for a meeting of creditors under the Insolvency Act 1986.

BBC: Devils' fans voice their anger

The Monday after the deadly collapse of Rana Plaza in Savar, Bangladesh, Joe Fresh parent company Loblaw joined fellow retailers Sears Canada and Wal-Mart Canada at an emergency meeting of the Retail Council of Canada to discuss how to combat working conditions in sweatshops.

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One parent, Julian Teed, who helped to organise the rally outside Tuesday's decision-making meeting, promised a "united front".

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