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.
I appreciate all the thoughtful comments.
Here’s my up-to-the-minute newscast. On the one hand, there is much good news. Common Core is being rolled back in many places; I hope it will be rolled back until it falls in the ocean.
On the dark side, our Education Establishment, UNESCO, and all sorts of national and global meddlers are plotting every day for how to dumb down the schools even more.