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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. If we can’t have an honest discussion where constructive criticism of discipline policy is a focal issue then we can continue to bury our heads and lament as teacher shortages rise. If teachers don’t feel safe they won’t teach. If they have disruptive or violent kids in their classes who must remain there because of policy then you’ll see the problem be an issue.[/quote]

I'm a teacher and I love restorative justice programs. It's not even in the top 5 reasons I'm constantly one foot out the door.

1) The pay
2) The hours outside of contractual time
[b]3) Parent expectations in terms of constant communication[/b]
4) Abundance of mandated state testing
5) Being in one of the few fields that will never transition to a remote or hybrid model.

You don't like RJ clearly, considering your OP was immediately blaming progressives for the teacher shortage. Here is a teacher telling you that RJ is not an issue to me at all.[/quote]

+1 As a former teacher, I still have nightmares about the freaking paragraph length e-mails I would receive from SAHMs angered by a slight that their precious child received in class.  Go do something else with your life! The teacher is already overburdened with the KIDS in her actual class in front of her. She doesn't have time to get on the computer and wrote you in length back.[/quote]

This is such a petty and dumb complaint in a conversation that is about bigger issues that all I can think is that it's good you, specifically, are a former teacher. "I hate that some of my students' parents were very invested in their kids' education, and also were not always succinct in their communications." That's fine, but not an industry-wide issue in need of addressing. Do you want to... eliminate SAHMs? Discourage parents from contacting teachers? Enroll parents in writing courses so they can ask their questions and make their comments more directly?

I hope the paragraph length of my comment isn't too much for you to handle.[/quote]

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