<p>Opie- Im not going back to address all your post- but I didn’t call you racist- but you are looking at teacher behavior from another perspective from me and from some others on CC.</p>
<p>I am coming from a district where the lack of accountability goes from the teachers all the way to the superintendent. I quit my job midway through my daughters elementary career in an attempt to get her an appropriate education by volunteering in the building everyday so the school didn’t see me just as someone who wanted * more* but as someone who was working alongside of them for the school community.
Didn’t work until she changed schools.</p>
<p>I know that you have heard all this and more from myself and other parents- but somehow your take on it comes off as “our fault”</p>
<p>I realize that parents in Marysville may be quite angry with teachers even now, a few years after the longest strike in state history ( which was illegal), this could be where your defensiveness of the teacher union and teacher responsibilty comes from.</p>
<p>However-if you can acknowledge that teachers can make a positive long lasting impact- why is it so difficult to see that the impact can also be negative and long lasting?</p>
<p>Anxiety is one of the most common disorders in children- with some kids it is quite severe. Exposure to even one traumatizing event, may have repercussions that are lifelong.
If you haven’t had that occur to you, it may be difficult to have empathy that others may have that response to something that you barely paid attention to.</p>
<p>One of the things that we learn as we mature, is to be less egocentric and more empathetic to others perspective. Professionals are expected to be * professional*. Professionals dealing with individuals that have placed their trust in them, like therapist/client or doctor/patient are held to a standard of ethics. If a therapist holding a group session, led the group to believe they were in mortal danger- for $%#'s & giggles as the saying goes, they would lose their liscence.
A teacher- not only has authority over children because of position, they have influence over them because of the age disparity.
This case isn’t teachers making a casual mistake, like taking too much time to talk about baseball when they are supposed to be teaching the times tables,its about more than one teacher- planning an elaborate hoax on children they are responsible for- for their own amusement.
The fact that they couldn’t see ahead to the probable repercussions, leads me to believe that they don’t “get it”</p>
<p>Ive come across teachers taking advantage of the classroom environment before, but threats by teachers to students are disturbing.
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