Posted on 01/05/2017 4:17:43 PM PST by mdittmar
When you walk into school in the morning, you want the climate to be happy, welcoming and supportive. But what if you are unable to feel any of those things? In some schools, hostilities seethe under the surface and boil over into bullying and fights. Rather than connection there’s a sense of alienation that hangs over the school like a storm cloud. In schools with negative school climates, achievement and attendance drop,and teacher churn begins to rise.
Following the tumultuous events of 2016,our schools and our young people are determined more than ever to create positive school climates. Indeed, events from last year—including a factious presidential election—highlighted the importance of a positive school climate, where everyone in the school community feels a sense of safety, belonging and well-being.
To learn more about school climate and what some schools are doing to improve it, NEA Today talked to Maureen Costello, Director of Teaching Tolerance, a program of the Southern Poverty Law Center.
What are some school climate programs in place that educators can adapt for their schools at a low cost?
There are a lot of them – Not In Our School, No Place for Hate , Day of Silence, and one of our programs, Speak Up at School, to name a few. These are all programs that encourage students to be “upstanders” rather than bystanders and to confront bullying and bias when they hear it. Another way to improve school climate is through restorative justice and classroom circles,where students and staff sit in a circle and talk through conflicts to reach mutually agreed upon resolutions. The programs are fairly easily adopted by getting the materials online or getting just one person to go to a training and then lead a training for the rest of the staff.
(Excerpt) Read more at neatoday.org ...
NEA wants a “safe” environment for every student — except those who are pro-American.
This is a spiritual problem.
Heathens act like heathens, at any excuse. It wouldn’t matter if it was Donald Trump’s or Hillary Clinton’s messages. If there is an “in” and an “out” identified by any of them... and Hillary’s “deplorables” certainly would count here... then one will lord it over the other. They know no God who cares for all. They are in a sad condition.
And I’m not even sure the government is the right people to be preaching the gospel. They can open up doors for the gospel, but the buy-in has to be grass roots if it isn’t to look and feel like “state church.” Which it turns out that people hate for excellent reason; it stops being about spirituality and becomes about who gets the privileges.
Parents need to rediscover what is both duty and opportunity. Sweet Susie will be a lot sweeter if she knows she can count on a sweet Lord. And this doesn’t have to wait for going to school.
And to make their worldview go... they too need an enemy. Turns out that white bread Americans are it.
School are places to learn
If you are not there to learn then you should not be in the school. Period.
Just send troublemakers home.
People who want to learn should be the only ones allowed in schools. Education is a privilege, not a right.
There is a complex picture here. Parents who don’t care send their kids to the school as a baby sitter. So teachers inherit the role of godparents too, whether or not they want it.
Kids always learn SOMETHING at schools. It just might not be the lessons that classic educators intend.
And too... when everybody is taxed for this “privilege” then indeed it starts looking a lot like an entitlement after all.
Safe so as learn some reading, riting and ritmatic and less on how to community organize.
True. What I learned in high school was that I did not want to be around people who did not value education and were not there to learn but only there to stir up trouble.
they need to stop busing. kids go to school in the area they live in.
Exxxxactly.
They hear the thump of Trump’s foot and know it’s headed in their direction.
Try wearing a simple shirt with a reasoned Conservative opinion on it.
Then try to complain when a BLM shirt shows up.
These are campuses that teach that Whites should be slaughtered, and yet blame them for racism.
Teachers unions care about teaching modern Marxism packaged as education not skills for living a productive life.
Classic educators (we used to call them teachers, back when teaching the 3 R’s was deemed important) are mighty rare now.
NEA needs burned to the ground, followed by salt strewing.
It should certainly be noted that for agents like this to do what they were intended to do, the right circumstances have to exist.
And sometimes just bare moralizing won’t cut the mustard. You feel real good that you condemned whoever, and yet the problem keeps on going on.
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