At the Expense of a Teacher
A student shooting up the school, a student bringing a weapon to school, a student threatening a teacher, a student attacking a teacher, a student… and the list goes on and on. This is all violence and aggressions of students against teachers that have happened recently around the country, a new news story every day. How are teachers expected to take the role of student protectors when they are consistently put in dangerous scenarios by students.? The level of violence and student aggressions are a factor that ties into the declining teacher rate. When it comes to talking about the declining teacher rate, it never seems to come up at the forefront of conversations that the profession is becoming more and more dangerous. We talk about low pay and low funding at schools, and even about the natural mental health toll and stressors that come with the job, but it never seems that the rapidly increasing levels of violence and aggression on teachers by students gets brought into the conversat...