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Teacher would rather be redeployed to Iraq than go back to the classroom as a teacher
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:56 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 1:56 pm
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The current state of public education gives us the clearest picture of the decay currently happening in our society.
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He was deployed to Iraq in 2009 and was preparing to begin training to become a drill sergeant to instruct new soldiers. That future is now in jeopardy after suffering multiple injuries at Liberty Hill.
“I doubt that I will probably step my foot back inside a school in general for a very long time. I am terrified . . . I don’t want to get beaten anymore,” Bullock said. “I don’t want to get sexually harassed any more. I don’t want to fear for my life.”
Last month, Bullock attempted to break up a fight between two students and was punched in the head multiple times. He continued working but the next day went to the hospital where they took a brain scan and determined that he had a neck strain and was recovering from a concussion.
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Bullock is just one of many staff members at Liberty Hill who have been assaulted by students. On March 31, two staff members were injured breaking up a fight. In December, former employee Vera Gordon filed a lawsuit alleging constant abuse from 2016 until the time she left in 2020.
Gordon’s lawsuit describes female employees “being punched in their face by students, headbutted, drugged [sic] by their hair, having trash cans slammed over their head, knocked unconscious, subjected to frequent racial and sexual slurs” which she says generally led to a state of heightened anxiety and fear while at work.
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In March alone, the North Charleston Police Department were called to the school 14 times, and on Friday, the Charleston County School District confirmed another fight among students was broken up by a number of teachers. However, the district declined to report if any of them suffered injuries.
The current state of public education gives us the clearest picture of the decay currently happening in our society.
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Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:04 pm to GetCocky11
Public schools have been ruined. They're just breeding grounds for future criminals.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:22 pm to GetCocky11
Dude sounds like a huge pussy
This post was edited on 4/15/22 at 2:22 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:26 pm to GetCocky11
That’s odd. I teach at wealthy, predominantly white suburban school in a conservative area, and we never have any issues remotely close to that.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:29 pm to JoeNelson
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Dude sounds like a huge pussy
Or he knows that if he took action the mob would come for him
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:29 pm to GetCocky11
Now let's see the demographics of the HS
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:29 pm to StringedInstruments
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That’s odd. I teach at wealthy, predominantly white suburban school in a conservative area, and we never have any issues remotely close to that.
Yes, but you have to work around all that privilege, with those awful people with their backwards and outdated ideas of family values. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:36 pm to GetCocky11
I get it. I left public education for the private sector. I now work with mentally ill teenagers. They can and do act out violently but can be physically restrained to prevent injury to themselves or others. Most calm down after a few weeks. A structured routine and calm, orderly living situation is very helpful.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:44 pm to GetCocky11
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:49 pm to GetCocky11
This all sounds a bit suspicious to me.
If all this were happening I cannot imagine the teachers Union would not be all up in arms. All the teachers (not just the beat up teachers, the frightened one's which seem to include a former soldier) would go on strike or something.
This sounds pretty far fetched.
If all this were happening I cannot imagine the teachers Union would not be all up in arms. All the teachers (not just the beat up teachers, the frightened one's which seem to include a former soldier) would go on strike or something.
This sounds pretty far fetched.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:50 pm to GetCocky11
I don't blame him. Schools are the wild, wild west now that we have removed the ability to discipline or control children.
I don't think many people realize how bad it truly is.
I don't think many people realize how bad it truly is.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 2:58 pm to Eurocat
I know it sounds far fetched but it’s not. I teach in a diverse but middle/upper middle class area of Texas and this is happening. Drugs being used, drugs being sold, vaping, sex, fighting, etc. is common place. I know of teachers and my principal who have gotten caught up in the middle of fights and been hit. I know of multiple students getting felony charges this school year, yet they are sent back to school and we have to create a safety plan for them to be successful! Ridiculous
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:00 pm to Eurocat
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If all this were happening I cannot imagine the teachers Union would not be all up in arms.
There is no teachers union where this took place.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:04 pm to tigerfan0082
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I know of multiple students getting felony charges this school year, yet they are sent back to school and we have to create a safety plan for them to be successful!
Simple. The safety plan is to put them in an empty classroom all day with a teacher one on one. If that doesn't work put them in there with the janitor.
That or make every parent sign a waiver before every school year. Teachers have the right to beat the shite out of you if you act up. Don't sign, find a different school.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:05 pm to tigerfan0082
This isn’t far fetched at all. A former girlfriend of mine was an education major and her first job was at a Hinds Co. Mississippi middle school. She said it was basically a zoo. She would literally come home from work every day crying. She lasted close to two months and left and got a job as an office manager somewhere.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:06 pm to JoeNelson
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Dude sounds like a huge pussy
Explain this take to me. The teacher is an OIF veteran that gets injured breaking up fights at school. The medical diagnosis is listed in the thread, so he's not faking.
There's nothing he can do legally to defend himself from the students. The guy does his job, gets injured, and you call him a huge pussy?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:08 pm to LRB1967
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I now work with mentally ill teenagers. They can and do act out violently but can be physically restrained to prevent injury to themselves or others. Most calm down after a few weeks. A structured routine and calm, orderly living situation is very helpful.
They should enact those strategies at Liberty Hill.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:09 pm to Eurocat
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This all sounds a bit suspicious to me.
Only because it doesn't fit with your progressive point of view.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:13 pm to GetCocky11
OP left out this important bit of info from the article:
This school is for already known troublemakers, so essentially all of the worst students in one place. Of course they are little bastards.
eta: It is located next to Charleston School Of The Arts, which is the #2 high school in the state. This is an okay area of North Charleston near Park Circle, not the bad areas of North Charleston.
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Liberty Hill Academy is an alternative school for special needs students and those with behavioral issues. Teachers and staff are given extra training, and Bullock has even taught at alternative schools in other districts, but he says they are wholly unprepared to deal with some of these students.
This school is for already known troublemakers, so essentially all of the worst students in one place. Of course they are little bastards.
eta: It is located next to Charleston School Of The Arts, which is the #2 high school in the state. This is an okay area of North Charleston near Park Circle, not the bad areas of North Charleston.
This post was edited on 4/15/22 at 3:29 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 3:22 pm to GetCocky11
Private schools will only get bigger and bigger over the next several generations because of situations like OP described. I have watched it unfold in my area. It will revert back to the 40’s and 50’s. Segregation will happen again through private schools.
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