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Kolzig33189 t1_jddsn6a wrote

A good friend was a middle school PE teacher in CT for about a decade. During one class last fall, two boys began fist fighting. Both had been in trouble for bullying/physical violence incidents constantly. He put himself between the 2 of them and lightly pushed them back with each arm to separate them until the SRO could get there maybe 30 seconds later…and then of course one of the boys told his mom that the PE teacher pushed him in class, completely leaving out the part about himself fighting. Said PE teacher was given the option of resigning before he would be fired despite being defended by the SRO and several parents.

If schools (really, the ineptitude of admin) have reached this level of ridiculousness, who the hell would ever want to be a teacher?

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Miles_vel_Day t1_jdecd6j wrote

That's not systemic, that's a specific bad administrator. There is absolutely no reason under any state regulation that that teacher should've been forced to resign. What did the union do?

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Kolzig33189 t1_jderhzk wrote

I would argue bad admin is one of the biggest systemic problems there are right now.

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Miles_vel_Day t1_jdert25 wrote

Fair enough. It sure is extremely common. Big waste of money, too.

But still - what did the union do? (Was this a non-union school?) I've known a bunch of teachers who got in much more serious physical dust-ups and didn't face any disciplinary action.

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Kolzig33189 t1_jdevloc wrote

I don’t think the teacher pursued anything or pressured the union to step in…he was kind of looking for a change anyway so that was the push he needed. But I dont know for sure about union, I never really asked about that part.

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TriStateGirl t1_jdg6ua4 wrote

A gym teacher in my town had to resign from his coaching position because some of the players kept getting into trouble. Some of them were even arrested. How that fell on him, and not their parents is beyond me. These were high school kids, so honestly, they were.old enough to know better as well. I was an adult when this happened, and by now they would be too. I hope they at least feel bad for the outcome of their immature actions.

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PettyWitch OP t1_jddti58 wrote

This is the kind of stuff I am looking for. Thank you for your response. I don't have children but will start trying to attend my district's board of education meetings to find out if anything is happening like this in my school.

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