Teachers are not in a position to protest against their union bosses-—and then get hung out to dry when they need the union to represent them. Teachers are not in a position to protest against their administrators-—and then be brought up on charges of insubordination. Teachers, like other people, have mortgages to pay, children to support, and the other typical expenses of life. They need their jobs, the same as anyone else. I assure you I did not sign up to teach “sodomy, moral relativism and secular humanism”. I signed up to teach biology. I personally make it a point to present a good moral example, including my attire. I attempt to gently chide inappropriate dress or behavior, but there one is treading on thin ice, because the students have rights—and the teachers increasingly don’t. Students will tell you to your face, “I’m a gonna get you fired, b__ch!” Because they know they can. That is how screwed up things are now, at least in NYC’s public schools. The kids are running the schools and the teachers have to kowtow to them or lose their jobs.
Okay, blessings to you.
If a majority of teachers want to change this, they should band together and make the change happen.
If more than 50% of the union rank-and-file used that “protest” methods that liberals and teachers love to talk about, like, publicizing the problems, having demonstrations, walk-outs, starting “movements”, etc., well, they could “change the world”.
The union would collapse if more than 50% of its members went public on wanting to fix problems and threatened to walk.
If teachers all across the country did this at once, even 1/3 of them, it would start a massive movement that the union would look idiotic alongside if it did not support the movement to end the lack of permission for teachers to discipline students.
You can’t teach without first having students ready to learn, meaning, basic discipline.
All teachers know this; most everyone knows it.
Teachers, like all government employees - always - are looking at a retirement. That’s the big prize. The teacher and all town/city employees get Social Security when they retire PLUS a pension.
Those pensions are the grand prize that teachers keep in mind, why they “lay low” and just PUT IN THEIR TIME.
Yes, the legal system has established this idea that students are running the schools, but no one involved is starting any “MOVEMENT” to bring discipline back to schools.
Tells us all we need to know. The powers that be want this mess, and sheeple are convinced by the dynamics of trying to get by to go along to get along.