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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88% are fearful “if you happen to be a White teacher”.
“Survey: 60% of teachers are afraid to go to school”
Explains why they’re so damn UNEDUCATED.
Well, all the more likely if most of the student body is Amish.
I can’t understand why? It’s not like the kids are drug dealing, gang bangers with tear drop tattoos under their eyes or anything... /s
I’m not sympathetic, they helped create the problem.
By uniformly voting Democrat.
At least here in the Northeast-—many of these teachers are woke and voted for this violent “anything goes” culture-—Now they are experiencing it first hand...zero craps given.
Yup-—see my post above. Every year when I would complain about our out of control property taxes (80% goes to schools) they would basically yell us to “sit down and shut up”. They created it now they have to live with it-—just wish I didn’t have to pay for it.
Maybe if I justify the high taxes as to “expensive fight tickets” —— that will make me feel a little better.
“They rule the roost. They get to do whatever they want,” said Canavan. “We have students that will have 250, 300 write-ups in a school year, failing all the classes and disrupting the student learning from those that were there that care - and it’s a real problem.”
And therein lies the problem.
It would appear to me that the problem kids are not being kicked out. They are the agitators, disruptors, etc. They make it hard on the teachers. The make it hard on the other kids.
In order to have a safe productive school environment, the bad eggs need to be completely removed - either by expulsion or sending them to an alternative school.
It seems to me that a number of these kids are un-reachable. They can’t be reasoned with or taught to follow the rules. They are dragging down others with them. That has to stop.
I don’t have sympathy.
The bloated woke union bureaucracy created the very cesspool in which teachers must swim.
Maybe teachers starting to hate the system they are responsible for will be a catalyst for change.
Truly unruly, disruptive kids should be expelled and cut off from the g’ment teat (medicaid or whatever).
Is it them Boo boo?
You and I both know that to do so would be racist.
Teachers reaping the rewards of teaching liberalism and democrat democracy.
Ahh, the joys of “restorative justice” wherein the delinquents are allowed to remain and create a nonlearning environment for everyone else and the ball-free principals do nothing about it.
Schools should never be forced to house a degenerate for a few hours a day.
They mess up, kick them out , lower school taxes, and let the police and be adults deal with them, outside the school environment.
My nephew told me of going to classes and the teacher spending 30+ minutes to get it under contro. By that time, bell rings, class over.
You made your nest.
Yep, this is the world they helped to create.
Thinking of my school years in the Deep South 1950s-60s, if one raised their voice to a teacher, one got a heated butt with the board of education. Even though the parking lot was full of pickups with loaded rifles and shotguns, the teachers were respected. No one dared lay a hand on an adult.
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