Educators report being threatened and attacked by students and, in some cases, their parents. Elsewhere, they worry about censorship.
“We’re scared to teach. We’re scared to do our job,” said a veteran teacher in D.C. public schools who was attacked by one of her student’s aunt in front of her classroom of young children last school year. She spoke on the condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation surrounding her assault.“I was greeting my students as they came in,” the teacher remembers about the morning of the attack.
The educator still doesn’t know why she was targeted. After more than two decades in education, she is used to dealing with disgruntled moms and dads. “The parents are becoming more and more verbally and physically abusive,” she said. But it had never gotten physical. “I’ve been a teacher for 24 years, and I’ve never had that happen.”
At another D.C. school, a different longtime teacher said a student stabbed him with a sharp object from the classroom. The attack happened after the teacher reprimanded the student for telling his classmates, “‘Y’all better do your f---ing work’ or something like that” during class, the teacher recalled. He added the student appeared to be joking at first, but his response was inappropriate.“I’ve taught for over two decades, and it has never happened.
The child attends another school district now, the teacher said. “My concern is, you have a really angry child out there and he’s not getting the help that he so desperately needs.” Officials from D.C. public schools did not respond to a request to comment about the concerns from some teachers and the Washington Teachers’ Union.The problems in D.C. mirror troubling trends across the country. Teachers elsewhere are also reporting more attacks between students compared with previous school years, as well as bullying, rowdiness and threats.
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