“this morning I posted about a student lunging at and cornering me with a chair and saying he’d rip my face off.”source ↗

“anyway I just asked that the student is removed under a state law, and I feel awful. my grade level team is upset and i know admin will be upset. it’s an impossible career.”source ↗

“Hi yall, I’m wondering if I should quit my job or not. I work as a high school art teacher.”source ↗

“Last week on Wednesday, a student left a note on my desk talking about how much he wants to kill me because my voice is annoying.”source ↗

“The next day, while suspended, the kid shows up in the middle of the day, enters the building, is able to visit another classroom AND have lunch, and makes his way to my classroom after.”source ↗

“I kind of feel like I should quit. Would you?”source ↗

“Yet, when a staff member or Teacher is physically assaulted, punched, kicked, or bruised, the exact same administration often hides behind MDRs, IEP protections, or restorative paperwork, sending the student back to the classroom the very next day.”source ↗

“it seems discipline has shifted to where protecting administration and verbal policies takes absolute priority over the literal physical safety of staff and teachers”source ↗

“I got hit in the face by a student, grade level admin told me to “own my classroom.””source ↗

“I can’t handle these policy speak robots.”source ↗

“He hit me with a large metal object.”source ↗

“Their plan for me was to put oven cleaner and bug spray in my coffee.”source ↗

“I was kicked multiple times in the leg and stomach and punched by a 5th grader much larger than myself during class. Soreness and bruising already, the admin didn’t seem to do anything about it but write a report.”source ↗

“I had a student who tried to dunk me into the trash can. I sent it up the chain.”source ↗

“when he suddenly grabbed my head and started shaking it and went, "Does this thing need a 220V electric shock?"”source ↗

“He had grabbed it so hard, I wasn't able to get his hands off me!”source ↗

“My school management is shitty, and unprofessional, and they pamper students like anything. So reporting about this isn't going to help.”source ↗

“My wife has been working at this school for 3 years and this year is particularly worse than the others. She has two extreme cases where both elope, bite, punch, slap, and throw items at both teachers and students.”source ↗

“I can’t tell you how many times I pick up my wife who has bruises and bite marks on her arms and legs, and even had to visit urgent care for two incidents.”source ↗

“Today she called me crying because one of those two kids punched her and bit her, while the other kicked and ran out the classroom.”source ↗

“We had a situation where a kid routinely called his teachers the n word, bitches, etc. We’d report, document, and remove and he’d be sent back within the hour. Mind you this was an optional camp program, he did not need to come. Until he called one of the administrators a bitch. Then he was disenrolled from the program immediately,”source ↗

“I was an after school club coach. I was told I had to accept a kid with terrible behavior. After disruptions, I convinced the principal to require a parent attend the club with their kid... This kid jumped up on the table, run the length of it, jumped on my back and brought me to ground.”source ↗

“I was assaulted by a child last year. He split my lip open. I was asked to fill put a workers injury form, check in with the nurse and local PD came to take a report.”source ↗

“If a student in your classroom verbally accosts the teacher or physically attacks them, then the TEACHER likely caused this because of their lack of routines, clear expectations, consistency or any other reason admin wants to come up with”source ↗