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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am an elementary school teacher and sadly, this isn't rare. I've always built great relationships with students and usually have a way with hard to reach kids.  However, the last five years has been a revolving door of students with little to no respect.  Yes, the pandemic hasn't helped but this started well before March 2020.  I've been hit more times than I can count, called every horrible thing under the sun, and still parents dismissing our calls and calling us racists.  I remember in the fall of 2019 I got punched in the face by a student because I leaned down and asked him to stop threatening a peer.  I ended up with a bruised face and my DH was furious.  He actually wants me to quit but I LOVE teaching.

I just wish the general public knew how often bad stuff goes down even at the elementary level.  I know the school to prison pipeline stats and understand the theory behind restorative practices, but we need to start inconveniencing these parents who let their kids go ape shit on us at school.   [/quote]

The school to prison pipeline is concerning in large part because we know that teachers respond differently to the same behaviors from Black boys vs White boys. Getting rid of any consequences is the lazy way out and doesn't change the behavior of teachers, just the tools at their disposal. Don't use MCPS's ineptitude as an excuse to ignore the history. Not all of this is about parents - it's also about MCPS having absolutely no idea how to educate students of color.[/quote]

Interesting comment.  I have been through a lot of training as a teacher in MCPS.

One of the problems is that were are not actually taught much about the cultures of our students.   Even simple things like word choice is very powerful and is miscommunicated.  Certain words like "thug" have a different meaning to a white female teacher than they do to a "black male student".   All of it comes down to context.    Don't get me started on all of the non-white students using the N-word.  I have to scratch my head when a Hispanic kids calls an Asian kid the N-word.

Until they start teaching student culture to teachers expect continued misunderstandings and distance in teacher to student relationships.   Right now they are trying to convince the teachers at my school to integrate cell phone use into class.   But that basically just turning complex education into simple games, not improving outcomes on an test. [/quote]

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