The 'teachers' were paid for the day to be IN the classroom. Why were they NOT in the classroom? Study Hall is a punishment. I would have refused as well. This boy was where he was supposed to be.
> The ‘teachers’ were paid for the day to be IN the classroom. Why were they NOT in the classroom? <
The article doesn’t give many details. But I’m guessing the teachers were just following district orders. Some were probably told to report to the study hall. The rest were probably told to report to the protest site as monitors.
As I noted in an earlier post (#31), I’m a veteran teacher. And I’ve got a story for you. Remember the day the OJ Simpson trial verdict was announced? I was teaching chemistry at the time.
Every teacher in our school was told to quit teaching! We were all told to get out our classroom TV sets, and turn on the news. Watching the verdict come in was supposed to be a “teachable moment”.
Well, that was a damn bad idea for many reasons. I had chemistry material to cover. And the math teacher next door had math material to cover. And our school was racially polarized enough as it was!
But we teachers had no say. We had to follow orders and get our TV’s out. No other real option. (A protesting student gets applauded. A protesting teacher gets fired.)