A Teacher Safety Perspective on Teacher Shortages
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17 responses to “A Teacher Safety Perspective on Teacher Shortages”
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“If the teachers unions cared about their members, they would be clamoring for better discipline in schools. But they are not. I find that very strange. And inexplicable.”
Strange, yes. Inexplicable, no. Teachers unions are run by ideologues. Ideologues are impervious to reality.
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Remember what your grandma said, “People who can’t; teach and people who can’t teach run the unions.”
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There’s fascinating data in that survey. This question, I thought, was particularly interesting: “The adults at this school are too strict.”
Strongly agree: <1%
Agree: <1%
Somewhat agree: 5%
Somewhat disagree: 16%
Disagree: 37%
Strongly disagree: 42%And this: "Students can get away with breaking the rules at this school pretty easily:
Strongly agree: 13%
Agree: 22%
Somewhat agree: 17%
Somewhat disagree: 13%
Disagree: 16%
Strongly disagree: 18%I suspect that the answer to that last question varies significantly from school to school.
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Clearly the unquestioned benefits of VTSS had not kicked in yet.
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Superintendent Hutchings last day was August 1. Much of the mess can be traced to his four years in charge. New sheriff in town has a plan. I am going to follow Alexandria this year. Curious to see if equity driven discipline yields results.
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Considering that conservatives now claim that we would have all been better off if the schools had never closed for Covid-19, why are those same conservatives showing any concern for school staff safety?
I guess it fits into the same logic that shootings in Chicago are significant but mass shootings In Uvalde are not and a 15% in total deaths due to Covid-19 in 2020 and 2021 is just fake news.
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I guess it fits into the same logic that shootings in Chicago are significant but mass shootings In Uvalde are not…
Who said that?
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Every time I am at the gym and in looking at Fox News or looking at the NY Post, Newsmax, Breitbart, etc. Every Monday all of the right of center media has the body count from Chicago and a discussion of how dangerous Chicago and other blue run cities in blue run states are. Of course, how many Fox News viewers or Daily Wire listeners know that Louisiana has a higher murder rate than Illinois? That would be none.
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You did not answer my question.
Who said the mass shooting in Uvalde was not significant?
And what does Louisiana have to do with Uvalde or Chicago, which were the two localities you mentioned prior to changing the subject?
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Every right of center writer has stated openly that nothing can really be done to lower the number or extent of mass shootings in the U.S. In other words, the 2nd amendment trumps all arguments and having a homicide rate much higher than Europe and having mass shootings is just the price to pay for having a 2nd Amendment right.
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Every right of center writer has stated openly that nothing can really be done to lower the number of extend of mass shootings in the U.S.
No, they have not.
And you STILL have not answered my question.
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using a phrase by thugs is passive voice. Something has to be done about violence in schools. The question is whether schools are willing to fail or expel a large number of students when most of those students will be black or brown and virtually all will be male?
Dancing around the issue by talking about teacher safety or hiding behind the idea that 140 lb teacher can physically defend themselves from 18 y/o males does not answer the question.
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Flawless logic.
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The people claiming to be concerned about teacher safety are not really that concerned with teacher safety. What most of those expressing concern care about if being able to expel troublemakers and delinquents while not talking about troublemakers or delinquents. So the advocates use a passive voice approach to talk about teacher shortage due to the lack of safety. Of course, the same people who are not concerned about teacher safety were quite willing to threaten the teachers jobs if they did not agree to work in a full school with no social distancing, no masking, and no immunizations back in 2020.
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Somehow private schools in the U.S., and even some public schools in the U.S., and even public schools in Europe and other countries figured out how to keep schools open without endangering teacher safety. Only U.S. public schools in “progressive” public school districts seemed uniquely incapable of walking and chewing gum at the same time.
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Don’t confuse the issue with facts. Many private schools opened far sooner than their public counterparts. Did private school students and teachers die in droves? Of course not.
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To improve teacher safety, teachers should be permitted, and even encouraged, to actively defend themselves against physical attacks by thugs in the schools using whatever means they deem necessary.
Please point out the parts of my comment which were in the ‘passive voice’.
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