You think the Thin Blue Line is secretive? Ask yourself why teachers don’t come forward about what is really going on urban schools.
Because to speak out is career destroying. They just get told as they leave, don’t speak about what happened here and to you or you will never teach again.
This is also a lesson to those vested in their children’s future. If you value your child’s safety and education, thoroughly know your schools demographic. These disruptions that happen send dedicated teachers away and deprive your child of their learning opportunity.
Most of the problems we face in this country can be traced to situations where people who have nothing in common are forced to interact with each other against their wishes, and public education is a perfect example of it.
If I were a teacher in an urban school - and I hate to admit it - I would probably let these youts play on their phones all period, while I sharpened pencils or filed my finger nails, a la Mrs. Wiggins.
Just park your car and look out your window when the kids come out of school. If you don’t like how they act, then don’t consider the school for your children. At least that’s what my relatives do. Since many of them live in Washington, DC, they send their kids to private schools.