Good for her. Refreshingly level-headed.
The truth shall set you free.......
This women has it..my was a first grade teacher..when she first started in 1970...the kids came in and sat down and said nothing til class started..
https://www.facebook.com/kellygraley/posts/10156224702772958
Okay, I’ll be the bad guy and say what no one else is brave enough to say, but wants to say. I’ll take all the criticism and attacks from everyone because you know what? I’m a TEACHER. I live this life daily. And I wouldn’t do anything else! But I also know daily I could end up in an active shooter situation.
Until we, as a country, are willing to get serious and talk about mental health issues, lack of available care for the mental health issues, lack of discipline in the home, horrendous lack of parental support when the schools are trying to control horrible behavior at school (oh no! Not MY KID. What did YOU do to cause my kid to react that way?), lack of moral values, and yes, I’ll say it-violent video games that take away all sensitivity to ANY compassion for others’ lives, as well as reality TV that makes it commonplace for people to constantly scream up in each others’ faces and not value any other person but themselves, we will have a gun problem in school. Our kids don’t understand the permanency of death anymore!!!
I grew up with guns. Everyone knows that. But you know what? My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my ass out. My parents invaded my life. They knew where I was ALL the time. They made me have a curfew. They made me wake them up when I got home. They made me respect their rules. They had full control of their house, and at any time could and would go through every inch of my bedroom, backpack, pockets, anything! Parents: it’s time to STEP UP! Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend. They have enough “friends” at school. Be their parent. Being the “cool mom” means not a damn thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME. I’ll say it again. My home was filled with guns growing up. For God’s sake, my daddy was an 82nd Airborne Ranger who lost half his face serving our country. But you know what? I never dreamed of shooting anyone with his guns. I never dreamed of taking one! I was taught respect for human life, compassion, rules, common decency, and most of all, I was taught that until I moved out, my life and bedroom wasn’t mine...it was theirs. And they were going to know what was happening because they loved me and wanted the best for me.
There. Say that I’m a horrible person. I didn’t bring up gun control, and I will refuse to debate it with anyone. This post wasn’t about gun control. This was me, loving the crap out of people and wanting the best for them. This was about my school babies and knowing that God created each one for greatness, and just wanting them to reach their futures. It’s about 20 years ago this year I started my teaching career. Violence was not this bad 20 years ago. Lack of compassion wasn’t this bad 20 years ago. And God knows 20 years ago that I wasn’t afraid daily to call a parent because I KNEW that 9 out of 10 would cuss me out, tell me to go to Hell, call the news on me, call the school board on me, or post all over FaceBook about me because I called to let them know what their child chose to do at school...because they are a NORMAL kid!!!!!
Those 17 lives mattered. When are we going to take our own responsibility seriously?
However, the one thing even ‘woke’ teachers will not advocate is the abolition of public education. It also happens to be the one thing that would make many problems vanish.
Discipline cases, psychos, truants and others unfit to be at a private school will be kicked out. He’s your dog, Charlie Brown.
Private schools will conduct their security operations their way. And God help the next would-be killer.
Thanks for posting.
She’s so right. It’s a sad testament to the level of discourse in our country right now that her comments would even be considered controversial in anyway.
Libs will never touch this because they are complicit in the problems this teacher brought up. It’s easier to blame it on some rifle.
We need more mental health treatment and fewer psychotropic drugs.
Kids today have ZERO respect..My cousin taught 9th grade math at a high school in Granada Hills CA many years ago..he quit he said it was a hell hole..kids hardly spoke a word of English and when they did they would cuss at him at throw food at him so he just said screw it and quit..the principal did nothing about it because the majority of the kids were illegal
Just...wow!
Good for her. I hope her job is not in jeopardy.
I hope she inspires other teachers to speak up about the parenting or lack there of.
Nailed it! I would also throw away the concept that every child is "special" and Participation Trophies are the way things work in the real world. When I was a kid, if I got spanked in school, I KNEW with absolute certainty I was going to get it again when I got home. Today's Snowflakes need a reality check and must be taught that it's their own effort that determines their success, not the idea that everyone is the same and that we are all "special". It just doesn't work that way and some kids can't accept that fact.
Truth hurts when it hits home.
Hah! She hit ALL the heads on ALL the right nails
Unfortunately, the nails are probably in her career’s coffin.
This teacher has hit the nail on the head. Because of the socialists demand to allow the kids to do anything and blame everyone but the child, we have come to this stage. Until we are able to RIGHTLY DISCIPLINE CHILDREN, show them that certain actions have consequences and they have to learn how to do things the right way. This type of behavior will continue and get worse.
This will get about 00:07 seconds on the media tonight, if at all. If it does get that seven seconds, there will be 13 minutes of rebuttal directly following.
“Our kids don’t understand the permanency of death anymore!!!”
My sister told me the same thing not long ago when describing how a teenager responded after killing someone. “I want to go home now,” when it became a late hour at the police station. He will never go home.
“Gun Free Zone” signs are about as effective as “Germ Free Zone” signs. Even more gun control laws will be equally effective. That is, not at all. But Schumer’s Sheep and Pelosi’s Puppets will never acknowledge these simple facts.
“over her almost two decades as an educator that she’s seen an increase in violence and a lack of compassion among students.”
That is the problem... not the guns.
She’ll be mercilessly attacked by the rabid hyenas of the left just like that poor guy who lost his daughter Wednesday simply because he was wearing a Trump shirt. This murderous rampage has made me hate the left even more just when I didn’t think it was even possible.