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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Progressive policies are making classrooms unsafe and driving good teachers out of public schools.  Check out the thread on teacher resignation.

But progressive news is blaming everything except the very progressive policies driving the violence in classrooms.

From the other thread on teacher resignation, this post sums it up well:

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I like how the author casually fails to mention of the impacts of progressive education policy in recent years, like instituting restorative Justice programs or less punitive approaches to managing disruptive students (like suspensions or of removing trouble students from classes), and it’s effect on teacher retention. If teachers feel they can’t teach properly because they have no recourse for disruptive students, or are in danger, but are forced to keep violent kids in classes because of these types of idealistic, naive policies, it would be good to read about that. Instead we get a watered down version of the truth.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/13/opinion/te...tudents-parents.html “

In DMV schools, a disruptive child is left IN the classroom, while every other student leaves the classroom, disrupting learning for the whole class.  It is insanity.[/quote]

Maybe turn off the Fox News for a bit.  I was a teacher from before this was a huge issue to after, and I saw exactly how it played out.  It was not progressive policies.  It was the confluence of changing educational policy (which did not originate with politicians) and the needs of certain districts to save money.  It stuck because it was cheaper, and once schools had cut the special disciplinary staff, the extra self-contained teachers, and repurposed the extra classroom space, there was no going back when it turned out to be a disaster.[/quote]

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