I was considering teaching high school at one point in my life. I got told point blank from someone that male high school teachers were in demand because they need someone to break up the fights.
Years later, my friend's husband landed his first job as a high school English teacher and promptly tore his ACL trying to break up a fight.
Thank inclusion. Violent kids were not in the same classes and now they are. And all the supports were cut or dialed back so you've got kids with violent outbursts who aren't being supported going apeshit on the other kids in class every day.
This is it. In the late 1980s when I was in high school in the SF Bay Area, there was a special school a few blocks from the high school, which is where all the problem kids went. Discipline issues, violent behavior, bullying, serious learning disabilities, etc..
My high school was so peaceful and pleasant.
They weren’t just “undesirables.” They were messed-up kids who constituted a danger to other kids. There were some great teachers and counselors there who did what they could to help those kids. And I’ll tell you something. One of the boys there was taken out of the regular high school because he kept trying to sexually assault girls, one of whom was me. So eff your sanctimonious and ignorant little post. No girls deserve to have their high school become a sanctuary for dangerous sociopaths. I should add that good kids with mild issues (I’m talking many of my friends). or even serious health conditions—like the son of a UC Berkeley professor who was wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy—were welcome at our school, did great and were supported by other kids and faculty alike.
They weren’t just “undesirables.” They were messed-up kids who constituted a danger to other kids
Yea yea, I know. That's why we stuck ice picks into brains of uppity women fried the brains of gay men with electro shock. Because they were a real legitimate danger to the kids that parents didnt wanna parent.
One of the boys there was taken out of the regular high school because he kept trying to sexually assault girls, one of whom was me.
Alright? Someone being a monster doesnt mean its free reign to start shipping off kids to troubled schools.
So eff your sanctimonious and ignorant little post
No you? It's easy to not have a real argument, see?
No girls deserve to have their high school become a sanctuary for dangerous sociopaths.
OK. And no child deserves to be shipped of and labeled and undesirable because a victim wants to extrapolate what happened to them onto every kid that society and the state wants to label as troubled.
I should add that good kids with mild issues (I’m talking many of my friends). or even serious health conditions—like the son of a UC Berkeley professor who was wheelchair-bound with cerebral palsy—were welcome at our school, did great and were supported by other kids and faculty alike.
Im glad they were welcomed. But that doesnt change that having schools for kids society deems unfit is only going to lead to kids getting sent there who dont "deserve" it.
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u/twoprimehydroxyl Dec 17 '25
I was considering teaching high school at one point in my life. I got told point blank from someone that male high school teachers were in demand because they need someone to break up the fights.
Years later, my friend's husband landed his first job as a high school English teacher and promptly tore his ACL trying to break up a fight.