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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teachers ARE talking about these issues. Just search “teachers quitting violence” and you’ll get pages of results. [/quote]

Well it seems like those complaints are getting lost in the noise. I just read an article from CNN about teacher shortage and they listed several things but made it seem like the biggest issues were low salary and “ grappling with culture wars over what they can and cannot teach in the classroom”.

[b]If you want violent and disruptive kids to be seen as the big issue that should be addressed immediately then you need to make that clear to the media.[/b][/quote]

They are ALL major issues. If you’re in Manatee County, FL right now, censorship of classroom libraries might be your biggest concern. If you’re in Kentucky, it might be teacher pay. If you’re in a class with a violent student, that’s the issue. The fact that teachers deal with all these and more means they give up and leave the profession instead of dedicating their nights to trying to solve the problem at a state or federal level when they are not policymakers.[/quote]

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