“Don’t make a wrong move,” the officer said as he pinned the struggling subject to the ground. “Period.”
The officer tightened the handcuffs around the subject’s thin wrists.
“Ow, ow, ow, it really hurts,” the subject exclaimed.
The officer pressed his weight into the subject’s small body while school staff watched it all unfold. The person he was restraining was 7 years old.
On extreme to another. Teachers have no control over the class anymore because of kids that just do whatever they want, so now we’re to the other extreme… police arresting a 7 year old kid.
Increased class sizes. Reduced funding. More obnoxious administrative interference. Standardized test after standardized test.
But hey, maybe its the kids’ fault.
Incidentally, the Superindendent of HISD just fired all the janitors in the district. So now that’s on the teachers’ heads too.
It would sure help a lot if we would sufficiently fund education programs so that class sizes weren’t massive and teachers weren’t wildly overstretched. Children are the same as they always have been, plus a little early life trauma from the pandemic and the rising cost of living crisis.
Kids are being raised by kids more than ever(and I don’t mean age wise) I %100 agree we need more teachers, better pay for them, and smaller class sizes, but we are at the other extreme.
I’ve been teaching in Title I schools…elementary, middle, and high school…where about 70% of students come from low-income households for twenty years. Not only are you dead wrong, your prejudice is showing.
Where the fuck did I say anything about race or income? You’re the one that brought that up. Get off your high horse; our test scores, no child left behind, stagnant and low teacher pay, large class sizes and admins who don’t stand up to parents and toss the teachers under the bus have caused this…race and income have nothing to do with it.
“Kids are being raised by kids” is shorthand for “poor, inner city students”. Don’t feign ignorance. You knew very well your implication.
Arguably more docile and broken than ever before, given the current administrative policies. Kids used to do all sorts of crazy shit. Now everyone is terrified in to obedience from day one.
But its never enough. We whip kids until they spit at us, and then we cage them or shoot them.