Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

Y’all are conflating your hatred for “equity” with laws the ensure all students have access to public education. How schools effect that is tricky, because even the act of separating disruptive students from mainstream classrooms can be fraught with discrimination lawsuits. It’s not easy. Further, as school districts support “school choice” and vouchers, many of the students left behind are those with special needs or behavioral problems, because private schools and charters can select the students they want. Oh, and before you start pointing to equity and “leftist” policies, these same issues happen in red states, too.

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We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a [b]level of disrespect an outright violence [/b]unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

The problem is that the horrible behavior that teachers deal with in mainstream classrooms nowadays is a byproduct of several policy choices that have been made over the past couple decades which it would be politically untenable to undo.

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[b]It is the school administrators and school boards who insist on keeping violent students in regular classes alongside your child, every day.[/b]

The administrators insist that violent kids “could suffer learning loss if suspended.”

And your children pay the price.[/quote]

It’s not the administrators and school boards — it’s the laws.

Anonymous wrote:There has never been a single teacher to ever strike who cared about their students. Not one.

BS....when teachers can't do their jobs students can't learn. It's too bad the schools in the DMV can't strike they are a mess and need an overhaul.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

And ICE.

ICE is inflicting violence. Teachers and medical providers are receiving it.

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Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

The problem is that the horrible behavior that teachers deal with in mainstream classrooms nowadays is a byproduct of several policy choices that have been made over the past couple decades which it would be politically untenable to undo.

Those “policy choices” have a specific name: equity (along with division and in this case, inclusion).

Former S.F. resident here. All politics aside, SF Board of Education has been and continues to be an absolute dumpster fire.

I 100% support the teachers. Teachers need better pay and better working conditions.

Anonymous wrote:Just because a child is violent in the classroom does not mean they lose their right to an education with their peers.

Teachers need to stop complaining and do their jobs.

Yes, gang bangers need to know Chaucer too!

Anonymous wrote:Frankly I think there should be a nationwide teacher strike. We keep asking more and more of our teachers and schools and yet pay the poorly pay and expect the to tolerate a level of disrespect an outright violence unacceptable in any other discipline except maybe emergency medicine.

And ICE.