I want to vent about the violence teachers experience at work.
Earlier this week there were several simultaneous fights at my school and adults were hurt. A student brought a weapon to the middle school with the intent of murdering another student. I've never witnessed anything like it and am just dead inside.
Today, two teachers were shot at a high school where many of my former students attend. It was their third lockdown this year. School is cancelled for the rest of the week.
It pisses me off that my school has provided no relief for teachers or students after an attempted murder. They should have cancelled school for a day so the adults could process.
The student with the weapon will be gone from school for less than two weeks.
Everything is just fucked up right now. We all know that gun and school violence is here to stay. It is intolerable that millions of teachers go to work everyday to geek out about learning and might get killed for it.