“”Of the teachers that I have counseled over the years who have been assaulted, 100 percent of them have satisfied diagnostic criteria for PTSD”
OH BOY! PTSD is it? What’s next? 100% disability payments for life for these crybabies?
Isn’t it amazing that back in the days of “the blackboard jungle” movie the teacher actually took it upon himself to do something about the situation? Today’s teachers are terrified sissies.
Believe it or not (you newer generation types) back in the day before the 1960’s parents and teachers actually took physical action to “correct” wayward punks and it normally ended up as a truly painful lesson.
Today’s solution is to get the punk into physiological treatments so that he/she/it can “work out” the frustrations the teacher caused them to have.
Now look at the teacher of yesterday and today: Teacher prior to 1960 takes physical action. Teacher of today runs to the physico office and claims PTSD.
What a sissyfied world we live in today.
If we teachers physically restrained or struck students in the manner you are suggesting, we would have lawsuits brought against us and possible termination of employment. It is not the TEACHERS who are the problem here; it is our SOCIETY. We have, as a society, become a wussified culture. Can you whip your child's behind these days without fear of CPS knocking on your door?
If we were ALLOWED to respond in kind as teachers used to, many of us WOULD DO EXACTLY THAT.
“Isn’t it amazing that back in the days of “the blackboard jungle” movie the teacher actually took it upon himself to do something about the situation? Today’s teachers are terrified sissies.”
“...took it upon themselves...”???
Today, for that, they would be handcuffed and walked down the hall to the laughter and jeering of the students. It would be professional and financial destruction.
I think you’re missing the point of the article
Today’s teachers are union and don’t approach the profession as a calling. For most it is a sinecure, rather like welfare payments they have to preside in classrooms for. And, if they resist the student thugs they will probably lose their jobs or go to jail. That was not the case way back when. Meanwhile the black city culture has become America’s Gaza Strip. For Israel the Gaza is an isolated corner of the country from which the beasts leak out from time to time and do damage. In America our Gaza is distributed throughout the country and the bleeding is internal.
Try that today and you will wind up homeless and incarcerated.
To protect myself, I must carry $1,000,000 in insurance for the privilege of herding these miscreants - and not all of them are "of color".
“OH! I fully understand the point of the article.”
It sounds to me like you’re blaming the teachers, and that’s not the point that Walter Williams is making.
So of course there's a 100% PTSD rate - if she found otherwise, she'd be out of a job. She may be dumb, but not that dumb.