[iminhell1]

I was talking with a teacher friend of mine last night and she was telling me about how she wants out because she has no power to scold students. She deals with many unruly and physically abusive kids and it's getting worse. Young students, little parent control, state's stance is student is always in the right, can't suspend them or remove them because it's limiting there ability to learn and against the rules (not sure if that's law or just school). She said the only was to get a student disciplined or removed it through police interaction. Every day she's spit on, punched, kicked, verbally assaulted, etc. And she just has to take it and continue on. I wouldn't put up with it personally. But she's one tough lady and the good kids make it worth it I guess.


I'd thought, well why should it only be assaulting police that's treated as a higher crime than the average citizen? Why shouldn't we extend that to all public service workers? Emergency staff have to deal with just as much if not more, teachers assaults are growing more violent every year it seems, child protection workers I would think are not immune, etc, etc. All careers that are understaffed. If there where more protections for these people maybe those positions could be filled better. And even if not, there service should be noted and held to a higher level of crimes against for their work.