If the teacher physically interferes he or she does so at his or her own legal risk.
The protocol i have been told iirc is to call the princials office.
If the teacher then calls the principals office he or she waits for the principal to determine what to do which may include bucking the issue back to the teacher without further direction or placing the teacher on indefinite hold or determining that the teacher is ineffective in classroom management skills as supposedly are taught in ed school.
On average i hear public Teacher burnout occurs within 5 years. They migrate to private schools or change careers.
Yep. Self defense and good samaritan act is considered like making doors that open outward and not inward, violating cop access to you and property just as much as you would want to deduct criminal access...
I’ve never met a TENURED public school teacher in NJ who left the field before retirement; they may transfer out of the urban sh!thole districts to nicer ones, but that happens early (before they near 6-figure salaries) or it doesn’t happen at all. I suspect that with seniority, they also get some say in their assignments - so new teachers are sent to the worst classrooms.
There is simply no way someone under 50 is walking away from a job pulling in $100K for 180 part-time days of work, with summers off and guaranteed employment for life. It just doesn’t happen - though it may in states where public school teachers aren’t the upper middle class.
A friend who taught was reprimanded for putting a band-aid on a kid’s cut finger. He was told only the school nurse was allowed to do that. He pointed out the school nurse wasn’t there that day. The principal shrugged. The reprimand stood.
A teacher who interferes in a student fight needs a good legal insurance policy.
you don't stand there and let this happen....
what's next.......letting guys gang rape a girl in class just because to interfere would be at their own "risk" and against school policy...