SweetSue92
Diamond Member
This is undeniably a huge problem in the public schools and I'm encouraged to see that most teachers are dead sick of it. More and more teachers are not putting up with it.
I think you're not crediting teachers with the correct reason they put up with being assaulted however--most teachers are actually compassionate teachers and most children who do the assaulting have some kind of special education diagnoses. So we want to be "compassionate". But the tide is turning on that. Look it up for yourself and see how many teachers are injured on the job....
Please try to read more carefully.
If you can accomplish that feat, you'll realize that my objections are to the system, to those who control the public system, Liberal activists.
As I have noted....to you....in the past, I have several friends who are teachers and resent what those in charge have done to what was once the best educational system in the world.
For remediation, you might pick up a copy of
“Troublemaker,” by Chester E. Finn, Jr. Former Assistant Secretary of Education under President Reagan.
Yes, and I'm sure all of your friends are in NY, or on the East Coast. NY is a very liberal state and also a very liberal city. I am not in such a liberal place and am here to tell you it's not the same all over, which you routinely fail to see. You see what is around YOU and extrapolate that to everywhere.
That's extremely short-sighted.
I'm sure you don't read, as you have conflated an anecdote with actual data, but the big picture is that the public schools are no longer about education.
Earlier American presidents, Republicans and Democrats alike, agreed on two basic goals: teach the newcomers English and make them Americans. The clear aim was to strengthen our national identity--to reinforce the unum in e pluribus unum--by assimilating the new arrivals into American civilization. Anti-Americanization
Just as campuses were in a stir over the rise of multiculturalism and identity studies, Schlesinger wrote "The Disuniting of America : Reflections on a Multicultural Society," (1991). In it he warned fellow liberals that the looming cult of victimhood, seemingly a liberal crusade, was actually an anti-liberal virus that threatened to destroy the very foundations of American democracy. In fact, what this academic groupthink represented was a closing of the liberal mind.
Armed with the new sense of mission and moral superiority, academic elites balkanized and politicized the study of society and culture, and wrapped their Gramcian Marxist critiques in an impenetrable jargon that only they could understand.
From "The Victim's Revolution," Bruce Bawer.
I'd be happy to prove the names of several books that are scholarly and interesting that would put you on the right path.
Just say the word.
I did not conflate. Data does not tell the entire story and you well know it. You can say 99% of people with this disease will recover, but if your mother dies with it, your mother dies. The data does not tell YOUR story and you know it. Homeschooling is GENERALLY successful but it does not tell EVERY story. It does not change the story of my ex-student who came into fifth grade unable to read anything at all.
You are telling me an anecdote up above. You are taking one version of what happens in public schools and saying this happens everywhere. It's one author's take. You don't know that this happens everywhere. You haven't got a clue about that.
Seems we agree that you don't read.
Sad.
Homeschoolers are viciously defensive about homeschooling, just like this. Or the vast, vast majority of them are. I think it's because they need to defend their choice to their children or something--I'm not sure. But it's caustic and off-putting. Your choice doesn't have to be PERFECT. It just has to be good enough for you and your child.