Taylor the Teacher

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I can’t believe I didn’t find this sooner. It’s a testament to this organization’s mission that I seriously thought I was the only one who felt this way. I cannot even get access to real information about what’s going on at my own school. It’s like a concentration camp. Not in the sense that people are being burned or killed, at least not unless it’s a frustrated student doing the killing. But in the sense that anyone and everyone is or could be a target. They don’t have to target everyone for everyone to get the message and shut their mouths.

I was talking to a teacher in my school who was in tears over what the administration is doing to her. She cannot afford to quit. She is a single mother of 3. They have her over a barrel.

There are more stories than I can relate this late at night, but I’m posting this entire segment from NAPTA because it’s completely true.

Most teachers enter the profession wanting to help children, and end up submitting to the business as usual agenda in order to survive. It is nearly impossible to transfer a teaching degree into any other field. Teachers also think that staying in teaching and compromising some of their integrity is better than not helping children at all. We believe there is a slippery slope once a teacher begins compromising, and our profession has fallen into an abyss because the frontline people do not work as professionals. They merely follow orders.

School violence; the epidemic of drugs and sex; children sent to therapeutic boarding schools; 850,000 home-schooled children; special needs children’s rights violated; dumbed down curriculum; miserable parents; good teachers fleeing from the profession; age discrimination; and competent young people not considering education; are just some of the issues we believe exist because teachers do not have a voice.

Ending the bullying of teachers will contribute to eradicating the excessive bullying of children that takes place in our schools, and that has led to tragedies such as Columbine. Why wouldn’t stronger, more popular children bully weaker children,when adults model the bullying of weaker adults in our schools? Is it any wonder that our schools have become minefields of torture for sensitive children?

Amen, and Amen.