My Mom is a Middle School special Ed teacher making $18,000 a year in upstate NY and only does it because she loves the kids. They are horribly understaffed and the administration knows she’s the best teacher to actually take care of the kids. And man the kids aren’t alright, the school as a whole is able to get the kids to actually focus on learning about 40% of the time they used to pre-pandemic. Everyone is missing milestones and everyone is depressed.
The administration wants her to take care of a kid that violently attacked several teachers and runs away from the school on an almost daily basis. This child apparently brought a large kitchen knife to school and a teacher found it and brought it their car. My Mom was only notified a week after the incident, meanwhile this kid is talking about how he wouldn’t be upset of his classmates died.
The district has no plan for exit for her or the children in an active shooter situation and told her to buy her own supplies to make home made door barricades and improvised weapons. There is no one at the wheel because no one wants responsibility.
This is bullshit. No one should be worried and plan for being potentially murdered at work for so little money that a single person couldn’t live on it. This goes for fast food employees and delivery drivers as well.
Now the one shred of hope I had for assistance to save my Mom has confirmed to be a lie. Police are not here to help us they are there to assign blame after everything happens. No one is going to protect my Mom or the kids she cares for, other than her. The worst part is I know she would die protecting those kids because we’ve had to have that conversation and I know the kind of person she is.
This is the only country this is happening to and it’s for a bunch of reasons. It’s long past time we address the roots of the problem instead of telling my mom to bring a gun and body armor to class.