Daktoria
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I wouldn't step through the door of the classroom without union protection, and I'll tell you why. It has nothing to do with the administration nor the board.
All a little tart has to do is point a finger and say, "he touched me", and you're in for the fight of your life. You don't actually have to touch her, you understand, just be accused, and you have a choice:
Depend on an underpaid and overworked public defender to save your career and your reputation.
Pay every cent you have for decent representation, if, that is, you've been working long enough to have a savings account at all
Depend on the union to back you up.
Don't expect the school district to support you, regardless of the facts of the case.
Accused = guilty, and you have to prove you're innocent.
The union part of this is backwards. Unions want teachers to be allowed to be lazy in administering discipline. That way teachers don't have to put up with it.
They kind of had this coming though. When you professionalize education, you dismiss social values. Therefore, people forget about duty of care. They forget that they're entitled to understand manners by the time they're graduated into adulthood, and teachers are allowed to get away with not teaching them.
Instead, teachers get to indoctrinate students with feminism, multiculturalism, environmentalism, and egalitarianism rather than caring about people for being people.