In response to the rising trend, 10 states have introduced bills that would allow for stricter discipline against students.
(American Greatness) — All across the country, school teachers are beginning to resign due to a rising fear of violence from students, with many acts largely going unpunished by authorities.
As reported by the New York Post, student behavior has gotten progressively worse after the Chinese coronavirus pandemic, with fights breaking out more frequently, and some altercations leading to teachers sustaining injuries in the process of trying to break up the fighting.
A study by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) in 2022 revealed that 84% of public school administrators believe the COVID pandemic drastically reduced student behavior and led to greater misbehaving. Another survey, conducted in April by EdWeek, found that 70% of teachers and other administrators believe the problem is getting worse.
“General behavior issues have become a bigger challenge in the job,” said Colin Sharkey, executive director of the Association of American Educators. “It preceded the pandemic, but it certainly accelerated because of the pandemic. It is a serious problem, and it’s threatening the number and quality of educators that we’re able to retain.”
Of all the public education employees who left the job last year, half were resignations; one-third of teachers who are still on the job say they’re likely to leave within the next two years.
One example is Stacey Sawyer, a 55-year-old former 8th grade teacher who quit her job in Cape Coral, Fla., last June, after 30 years on the job.
“It was getting to the point that it was scary. There were a few days that I was scared to go to school,” said Sawyer. “Even though I ran a really tight classroom, the disrespect just skyrocketed. Probably 75% of my time was dealing with discipline. The stress of it was just too much. I even hated just driving down the road to school. I didn’t want to go anymore.”
While Sawyer ultimately quit her job without experiencing violence against herself, other teachers were not so fortunate. In February, a Florida teacher named Joan Naydich was beaten into unconsciousness after a student punched her and stomped on her at Matanzas High School. The suspect, who was just 17 years old at the time, pleaded guilty to felony charges.
In another incident in May, an assistant principal in Texas was hospitalized after trying to break up a fight between two students, with the school district announcing that both students would be “subject to the full extent of disciplinary action available.”
A survey in 2022 by the American Psychological Association found that one in every eight teachers reported being the victims of physical violence from students. In the last school year alone, there were at least 1,350 assault-related workers’ compensation claims filed in schools in the United States.
In response to the rising trend, 10 states have introduced bills that would allow for stricter discipline against students, such as reducing the threshold for suspension and allowing teachers to use more discretion when enacting disciplinary measures. Four of those states — Arizona, Kentucky, Nevada, and West Virginia — have passed such bills into law.
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It’s only going to get worse until the mentality of our society changes. Our society as a whole has created this over the past several decades. The children are coddled and not given opportunities to learn coping skills in dealing with failures, rejections and disappointment. We did not have these issues decades ago. What’s changed? Unmitigated access to social media and the internet at very young ages. Lack of parental involvement and lack of discipline in the home. Too many parents want to be their child’s friend instead of their parent. The children are taught disrespect for authority in almost all the facets of their lives and the adults in most of their lives either encourage it or fail to discourage it. It really is past time for a significant shift in the paradigms of our society.
Start with stricter laws against globalist puppet, demonrat teachers named karen teaching their students that they must imagine the students are NOT the gender they are born and that Trump is bad only because they are globalist puppet, demonrat teachers .
The majority of these actions are being done by POC, worse thing that ever happened to this Country and will only get worse with all the POC that Biden and Harris are letting in.
Don’t even know why you want comments as many are not published because it does not meet your standards, people cannot express their true feelings and is a waste of time.
I am not sure what the General Concisions is concerning the job joe and kamala have done in the 3+ years they have been DESTROYING these United States. But let me say just one thing. The Boarder alone would be enough for me to place my vote Anywhere but with the democratic party. They have NO concept of how to take care of anyone BUT THEMSELVES. Our country as been turned into a Third World Country in the past 3+ years Thanks to biden and harris. Pay attention in November and just LOOK AROUND at what has changed in the last 3+years….Ask Yourself. “Am I Better Off Now or Was I Better Off Then…..Be Safe and Stay Blessed
Dennis L
The entire situation can be blamed on the school administrations. Nobody wants to enforce the rules and the kids know that, so they just take control and do what they want without any supervision. First,
each school should have a SRO or sworn safety officer. Each teacher should have a direct line to the office via intercom, when a situation arrises, they can summon professional help from the SRO. He in
turn can take legal action against the source of action without the administration approval. As long as the administration approves of the inaction, it will get worse in time. wake up people.
Too damn bad. You reap what you sow.
For years the liberal teachers union has been promoting NOT enforcing actions against the classroom violence and instead, coddling violent students.
Attest the kids as minors, give them a police record for LIFE that can never be sealed or exponged. Fine the student and they can work it off e community service. No show? 6 months mandatory juvie jail time. The can do remote learning in jail.
Fine the parents ain of $5000 and add it to their property tax bill since schools depend on property taxes at the local level, way more than fed funds
Renters can pay via a government backed credit card at the going rate of 31 % take it out of their paycheck just like a irs lien . No job? Go to jail for 12 months.
I saw one of my grade school teachers from 60 years ago. He stopped tracing about 50 years ago. Said at that time, in our very small community, the kids were put of control
50 years ago!!!!
I am a former Texas teacher who retired in 1999 after 30 years in education. I taught 1st through 6th grade for 21 years and was an educational diagnostician in special education for the last 9 years. In my district, at that time, discipline problems were addressed and dealt with; they were never dismissed or ignored. Parents had to sign a form each year as to whether or not school personnel (principal, assistant principal, teacher) were allowed to spank their child (with a witness present). If the response was “No”, and the child was not responding to other forms of discipline, the principal called the parent to come pick up the child and keep them at home for a period of time. Amazing how much better the child behaved after the parent was inconvenienced. I am a life member of the state teacher’s association and am angered by the association’s self interest and the blame of educational problems on the Republicans in office. This is my perspective: Teachers need to focus on teaching basic subjects and educating students; administrators need to focus on running a system that fosters those goals. Parents need to be held responsible and accountable for their minor child’s behavior and to work with the school when problems arise. Personal issues, such as gender identity, is not education’s business.