I have recently discovered that the federal government has been actively attempting to pass laws requiring teachers in public schools to be more aware of their students’ safety and the rights of the students under their care. For example, recently, the federal government passed a law that requires school districts to have “at least a minimum of one full-time and qualified person in each school district who is trained in CPR, and has taken an appropriate amount of CPR training and knowledge and who is an emergency medical technician.
This isn’t a new idea. In fact, it wasn’t even that long ago that many states passed laws forcing school districts to have medical professionals on staff. The government has always been the enemy of education, and it is becoming more and more clear that the government is attempting to turn education into a commodity and a money-maker for them.
In the course of teaching, and especially in the school-training phase of our lives, the state has been the target of a lot of abuse, and we have to figure out ways to address it. It took a lot of years for us to figure out when to keep teachers, and the parents, from using the same methods that we used to train them. They had to be able to get their kids to do the same.
We’ve all seen an example of this in the videos and articles we’ve been reading (and watching) about teacher tenure. In the case of teachers, we often hear that tenure is just a stop-gap measure for the teachers. They’re not out of the loop yet, and they’re not fired, but their contracts are being terminated.
It turns out that we should have been just as concerned about teacher behavior when we were in high school. I mean, at this point the parents have done the majority of the yelling. We know that teachers will sometimes make mistakes, but we also know that they have to be constantly reminded of how they’re supposed to be behaving. We don’t need to hear about it from the parents but we do need to see for ourselves.
Teachers are taught to never, ever, EVER look you in the eye. Period. If you look at them you are in danger and if you look at them you are in trouble. This is a good thing because it shows respect and it is a good thing because it instills the same kind of respect that you are going to receive from them. It shows respect to your teachers. We have a very small chance of being held accountable for this.
This is just what teachers are taught to do. They are taught to look you in the eye so you can see the seriousness of what they are saying. If you look at them they are in danger, and if you look at them they are in trouble. But, the problem is that this is not a good thing. Teachers are taught to look you in the eye because they are supposed to be looking at you to learn.
Teachers have a lot of control over how you learn. But the problem is that they are often very hands-on. Teachers are not trained to look you in the eye, and that is the real problem. They are not trained to teach you about the seriousness of what they are saying. They are trained to teach you about whatever is going on, but they don’t really like to look you in the eye.
We know this because in a school board meeting, a teacher was saying how they had to make sure that the students had a good grasp of the fundamentals in the subject they were learning in school, but that the most important thing was the teachers’ ability to look you in the eye.
I can’t say that I had a very good grasp of what he was talking about, but that was in the context of the meeting. In the grand scheme of things, he was trying to say something that is important and can easily be understood if we keep our eyes on him. The issue though is that the people sitting there, with a view of his eyes, saw that he was not really talking about a subject they were supposed to be talking about.