Posted on 05/24/2024 6:18:11 AM PDT by Libloather
By the time Stephanie Hartung returned to her suburban Seattle classroom this school year, the gash on her head, black eye, and bruising all over her body had healed. But she doesn’t know if the anxiety and stress from her attack – at the hands of a 12-year-old – ever will.
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But an investigation by eight local television stations, working together in seven states, found thousands of teachers across the country have had similar experiences. Nearly 8,300 teachers in 34 states participated in a voluntary survey asking about violent encounters with students, their opinions about possible causes, and possible solutions.
- 71% of the teachers surveyed said they’d experienced physical violence by a student at least once.
- 4,444 teachers said it happened “more than once” or “many times.”
- 60% of the teachers said they feel afraid to go to school at least sometimes.
- 669 of those teachers said they feel afraid “most days” or “every day.”
“If some of us aren’t willing to speak up about what’s actually going on in the school, nothing’s going to change,” said Cliff Canavan, a teacher in Brockton, Massachusetts.
Canavan has been teaching for 22 years and also coaches athletics at the same high school he attended. He suffered two broken bones in his wrist while breaking up a fight in 2022.
“There’s one of my athletes on the ground, sitting on her butt, unconscious, just getting kicked in the head repeatedly,” recalled Canavan in an interview with WFXT-TV.
He said he grabbed the attacker’s arms to hold her back and was trying to escort her from the area when another girl jumped on them, knocking them into a metal rack. He said students posted video of the violence to social media within minutes.
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Most of us went to church on Sunday.
When I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, we were always afraid of being sent to “Reform School.” We never heard about the place, where it was located, or what it was like there. But the fear of being sent there was enough!
I don’t know if “Reform School” was ever a real educational institution, but the fear of it worked.
I don’t know if “Reform School” was ever a real educational institution, but the fear of it worked.
don’t know if the permanent record is real either.
Only if it's on the internet.
We were told “it was going on our permanent record.”
Oh, yeah? Well, don’t get so distressed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kxK_-O1bQM
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