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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the new education catch phrase to deal with problem students and it’s crap. All the teachers know it. We just want to teach.

[b]Who thought of this? [/b]
I didn’t sign up to be a therapist.

Signed, 
a fed up teacher. [/quote]

Who?  DEMOCRATS - that’s who.

If you vote for any democrat for the school board, you are literally voting to destroy FCPS.

Support teachers!  VOTE REPUBLICAN! [/quote]

That’s the irony of it all.
This is the design of the democrats who are in control of higher level education and schools of thought there.
They like the idea of schools as counseling centers where teachers are the compassionate therapists who use their influence to shape the ideaology of the next generation. They call it educating the whole student, but it seems to be at the expense of educating them IN core subject matter.

Teachers and admins who come out of that system are all in with Democrat theories of “restorative justice” and teachers as therapists and all kinds of “solutions” that involve having teachers attempt to repair the social issues students face as a result of Democrat societal devaluing of the nuclear family and turn the government into “daddy.”
But in this shift,  they forgot to let the *effective* teachers (who have been in the classroom for decades) in on this grand plan, and those teachers know that they can’t teach core subjects if there is no accountability or expectation that students will be responsible for their part in their own education. At the very minimum, the teacher should be able to count on support for expecting that a student not be disruptive and disrespectful.
And when they are finding that isn’t the case anymore, teachers are leaving.
And what’s left is teachers who care about counseling kids in crisis and giving 1000 opportunities for do-overs and having a therapy session instead of detention, and who want to take on the role of social worker and advocacy agent of social justice. And that makes for a great lifetime movie if your school is homogeneously made up entirely of failing kids from bad neighborhoods whose home life is full of dysfunctional challenges…………..but it doesn’t work so well in the average FCPS school if the goal is to keep up standards of academic rigor and uphold an environment where students who want to learn have a classroom/school and teachers who are able to focus on teaching content. 
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You sound like someone who has never worked in a school and actually has no idea how they operate.  [/quote]

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