BTW, my credentials are only second-hand but pretty deep: my mother has experience at all levels of public school and also taught emotionally disturbed, including heading a high school for such while teaching them for 15 years. She also had to work in Baltimore public school but only 1 year in the end, then went to Catholic Charities middle school for ED kids. She taught a total of 40 years. She is well aware of all the nonsense that goes on from all directions.
Just curious. Has your mother, in her 40 years of experience, ever run into a teacher she thought was really out there? I am not being sarcastic. I am asking this as a serious question. My children go to catholic schools and the teachers at the school are all fairly religious and predominantly women. They don’t seem to pose much of a threat but I keep reading stories about teachers who are just bad. Has your mother ever run across a teacher who should not be trusted with a lethal weapon?