I teach at an elementary school in TX. I taught 8th grade for the last 2 years at a school that did nothing to support teachers. Just about anything was tolerated there. I can now say I am at a school that will not tolerate behavior such as took place in GA.

For the most part the children represent opinions and actions that they see displayed by the adults in their lives. When aggression and verbal abuse is used by these role models, it must be the proper response to daily situations so the kids will do the same. When teachers, and administrations do nothing to dissuade this behavior it escalates into regretful episodes of violence.

Course that’s just an opinion of mine, and I have been tainted by 22 years of military service before I began a teaching career.


Bill