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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Are there any statistics on how often this is happening in schools? [/b]Like is it once per week, or twice per day in every grade? My daughter is in 5th and I never hear anything like this happening. We're in a mid-size, high-SES/UPC public school. FCPS.[/quote]

I'm a teacher and would love to know this. We are able to submit discipline referrals via our online system but we can't see what happens after that. Administrators do not like to have a high number of referrals so we're actively discouraged from submitting anything unless it's really serious. There's a lot of shaming at some schools and[b] teachers are made to feel inadequate if they continuously refer students, even if it is egregious behavior. I suspect parents would be livid if they realized how often it's happening though.[/quote][/b]

ES teacher here and I avoid involving administrators for the reasons you mention.[/quote]

This. Teachers get a "reputation" if they refer students to admin.  Also, teachers get the better teaching assignments and better school assignments if they don't have a "reputation."[/quote]

This really sucks. [b]The public is the real employer of teachers, not the school admin[/b]. The school admin is only required to handle paperwork.

Teachers need to start bypassing admin somehow and reaching parents directly with their concerns and decisions. Perhaps anonymously through the media but ideally through lobbying government for the support that they need. Isn’t this what teachers unions should be doing?[/quote]

Absolutely incorrect. But next time a cop pulls you over, be sure to tell them “I pay your salary!” Record it, so we can all watch how that goes for you.  :lol: [/quote]

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