This has always been the case though. I would think that aspiring to teaching is understanding that dealing with disparate personalities, backgrounds and behaviors is part of the job.
National Education Association and American Federation of Teachers are two of the largest unions in the United States. Randi Weingarten has been president of American Federation of Teachers for 18 years. Her salary and compensation is $588K annually.
teachers alone who go through education to learn how to educate specifically cannot be tasked with dealing with 15-30 kids trauma, mental health issues, horrible life situations, bad parenting etc. these kids need more support, and it’s unfair to drop all that on one (usually) lower-middle class (usually) woman and expect her to be able to mold these kids into functioning well adjusted human beings. we need to work on fixing the system bro.
Back in the day a classroom may have had a couple of kids in each class at most dealing with something and one of them would drop out. Now? Like she says every one of them is dealing with something and they’re all mandated to be in school. Back in the day, you could drop out in 7th grade and the state wouldn’t be involved. Some people back in the day would leave to go to another state and start life over at 15
Over the long term, official rates of substantiated child abuse have significantly gone down in the United States, particularly since their peak in the early 1990s.
Since the 1990s, confirmed cases of physical and sexual child abuse have dropped sharply:
Physical Abuse: Decreased by over 60% since its peak in the early 1990s.
Sexual Abuse: Decreased by over 60% during the same multi-decade span.
In 2020, there were approximately 619,000 confirmed child victims of abuse or neglect.
By 2024, that figure fell to around 532,000 confirmed victims (a rate of roughly 7.2 per 1,000 children), representing a 14% decrease over four years.
Unfortunately that may have more to do with reductions in capacity for investigation and follow through on claims and failure to report.There are so many kids that don't have a happy ending even though their case was deemed unsubstantiated/unconfirmed. You have to remember that many of the cases that eventually are substantiated it was after multiple reports that previously were deemed unsubstantiated. Sadly, it's also the case some kids run away or don't make it past the first report becauseof retaliation. Look at the statistics for missing and exploited children rates and how that paces the decline in confirmed abuse cases.
Reports of missing children to law enforcement dropped by roughly 40% between the late 1990s and the 2010s.
High Recovery Rates: According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), law enforcement and advocacy groups resolve approximately 90% to 91% of reported missing child cases annually.
Literally all the data you can find shows kids are far better off than they were in the past.
Any problem you can think about existed back then.
Because some of them really don’t want to be there but if they don’t their alcoholic mother will be in jail and she will get pissed even more that you put her in jail. Some of them want to run away and never come back
The problem is you can’t just make a school for the traumatized but at the same time they have to be in school even after being molested the night before for example. It’s a hard thing to navigate
They literally had schools for the traumatized and those with special needs. They all got shut down with and now teachers spend more time dealing with those kids then teaching. The special needs school in my town is now used by the school board only. 50 schoolroom building just rotting away.
Fix the family unit & communities... This isn't a teacher's responsibility. Salute to those that go the extra mile, but the point still stands. Dare I say that Some people shouldn't reproduce. Many are just lost and don't know the way or a way back.
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u/BrentDavidTT 2d ago
This has always been the case though. I would think that aspiring to teaching is understanding that dealing with disparate personalities, backgrounds and behaviors is part of the job.