Posted on 01/12/2023 4:12:57 AM PST by MtnClimber
The schoolhouse of twenty years ago is not today’s schoolhouse.
I have taught high school English in the public schools for twenty years in three states, including two red states and a deep blue state. I have taught mainstream English, honors English, and remedial English. I’ve worked in alternative schools, high-poverty schools, large high schools serving mostly English learners, and predominantly white, middle-class schools.
Last month I let my teaching license expire. For the first time since 1998, I am no longer qualified to be a teacher in my home state of Kansas. When I consider the public education landscape not only in the Midwest, but across the country, it is with sadness that I think, “Not qualified to teach secondary English anymore? You’re right.”
I’m not qualified to deliver counseling services to the legions of broken, fatherless, emotionally stunted students who walk through our classroom doors every day. I’m not qualified to engage in behavior modification with dysregulated, angry kids who exhibit no impulse control, zero empathy for others. Students have talked about killing me, threatened to hit me in the face. Upon writing up these incidents, I have been blamed, told I need to work on “building relationships” with students, or offered more training on working with students dealing with trauma and abuse. Administrators pass off these students’ comments with, “Oh, he didn’t mean it... “ “I talked to him... “ or “Think about what may have occurred in your class that provoked this behavior.” There are minimal consequences for students who verbally and physically assault teachers. It’s open season on public school staff. I am not alone.
I’m not qualified to instruct near-adults in the basics of third-grade reading, grammar, and spelling skills. It's become increasingly impossible to teach high-school level literature, let alone the classics.
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All of those novels about a dystopian future seem to be coming true.
Lucky he was not in Milwaukee Pubic System where teachers have been hospitalized by students.
My sister-in-law was pushed down the stairs by one of her students. She was advised not to make a police report. She did and the case was tried in court. The student received a short probation and a transfer to another school where he went on to terrorize other students and teachers.
Dumbing down people has always been part of the luciferian plan. Sheep are easy to control. Free thinking and stable people are not.
I feel so sad for what has been done to young people. Are many of them horrible? Yes they are. They are ruined. Then I think of some young folks I do know who are raised well who see a terrible future ahead. It is the fault of every American for allowing this damage to happen to our kids.
These schools need to be shut down and education out of government control. Won’t happen, will it?
If they aren’t killing them in the womb, they are killing them and making them slaves outside the womb.
Whoa, if that was my sister, no exaggeration, that punk would lose the ability to walk and I would-not-give-one rats ass about going to jail. Pushing her down the stairs is attempted murder and he gets probation? Oh forgeeeeet it!!! I would go bananas!
Who is John Galt?
People walking away from teaching, because the field is a nightmare.
People walking away from medicine, because the field is a nightmare.
People walking away from the military, because the field is a nightmare.
Also, a lot of people are giving up on voting, because it's a joke.
Our society is in collapse and a lot of people don't even see it.
The principal, school board members, and the judge should be removed from their offices, tried, convicted, and publicly flogged for their failures in dealing with this criminal student.
As a public-school teacher, I can wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed here. It is as bad as the OP has explained-—sometimes worse. Cultural rot is endemic in education in this day and age, sad as that is.
Updated for ignorant audiences.
Present company excepted.
The Camp of the Saints.
Africans and Central Americans belong precisely there…
The Balkanization of the US is deliberate and it’s the kill shot.
Soon we’re going to be North Brazil.
“All of those novels about a dystopian future seem to be coming true.”
The dystopian future has become the dystopian PRESENT.
The police report is necessary not only to facilitate a criminal case against the student, but to support a civil lawsuit and/or a disability claim for the teacher. If I was the victim in that scenario I’d see it as a great opportunity for an early retirement package and a permanent disability settlement even if I had just minor injuries.
A relative is in high school in Chapel Hill, NC, supposedly an upscale university town. She says many of the students are messed up.
Another relative, a long time teacher, helped a high school A-student, also a relative, with math homework. This teacher said the student’s knowledge of his subject matter was very shallow.
This mornings headlines on FR had me wondering where I was.
We have fallen.
BTTT
Another teacher quits.
We need more teachers and less administrators, yet what do we have after 50 years of the Dept of Education?
“no impulse control” Of course, many factors cause behavioral issues. But this one I believe is due to cannabis culture in urban “youth.” Adult stoners are usually easy going. But those who habitually use before the pre frontal cortex is fully developed (in early 20s and earlier in females) are prone to anger and bad decisions. When I moved to the big city, I met people who had been smoking pot since grade school. All had a sad life.
Daniel Moynihan sounded the alarm about the fatherless black families back when Lyndon Johnson was President and the Democrats were in power. The dangerous percentage was 24-25%.
Johnson started to move in the direction of correcting this legislatively but his Party rebelled with cries of,”Don’t blame the victim”. (Paul Ryan). This was in 1965.
Today the black percentage is 78%...but the white percentage is close to the warning of 25%. So instead of fixing the black problem we infected the white families.
The total of both is 50 million citizens living in fatherless worlds.
To me this is our main social problem and it shows in the schools.
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