The dangers of being a school teacher

FreddieUK · 70-79, M

This would show the complete breakdown of trust between students and teachers. Very few parents doubted the word of the school when I was teaching and those who did had very low expectations of behaviour anyway and excused all sorts of nonsense. I wonder how many teachers are being 'spied on' by kids taking surreptitious vids for later mockery or worse on their anti-social media sites later in the day?

Most students and teachers get on really well and this creeping surveillance on all of us is not good.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

In some schools they should. I know someone who worked at the lowest rated high school in Oklahoma City and the students were something else. Their parents were usually no better. It’s a very big risk working in class rooms like that when they act out every day. Tempers and fights are common even here.

Thevy29 · 41-45, M

I heard they replaced the walls of the classrooms with glass in my old school, so everyone can see what everyone else is doing. Body cams would have been more cost effective.. You know how many school windows we broke when I was a kid?

olderuncle944 · 70-79, M

Great Idea My little Tommy is always a good boy he didnt set the girl sitting in front oh him on fire she did herself some how .Just because Tommy was only one in school with a zippo lighter .docent mean a thing .

SunshineGirl · 36-40, F

No, not unless there is a really good reason, like the teacher feeling in physical danger.

How would you feel if you were routinely monitored in your workplace like this? It breaks down trust and respect.

Adrift · 61-69, F

In some cases the parents are just as bad as the kids.
I had a teacher tell me once that she had to talk to the parents of a student who was bullying another student, and the father seemed to think it was funny.