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1 day agoGermany news: Teacher group urges action over pupil violence
Germany's teachers' group calls for urgent action to address rising violence against educators in schools.
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For decades, work was designed around a fiction, that of the 'neutral' worker, an abstract individual assumed to be fully available, consistent, rational, and unaffected by bodily constraints. But this neutrality was never real.
"Let me be direct: racist language was used against students in our school. That is not a gray area, and no one on this committee or in district leadership is treating it as one. Our first obligation, before academics and before anything else, is that every student has a safe place to learn. And if any student does not feel like that, we have work to do."
Axel Rudakubana, wearing a green hoodie and armed with a kitchen knife, ambushed a class of girls aged between six and 11 during a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, resulting in three fatalities and multiple injuries.
While events such as "Mother's Day Crafts," "Daddy and Daughter Dances," and "Grandparents' Breakfasts" are often planned with good intentions, they can unintentionally leave some children feeling invisible and serve as another painful reminder that their lives have changed forever.
58% of teachers have experienced physical aggression such as scratching, biting, and thrown objects in classrooms, indicating a serious issue regarding teacher safety.
"It's just like a neverending game of musical chairs," Jensen says. Just when a teacher thinks they've perfected their seating chart, two neighboring students will have a fight, others won't stop talking or parents will email with their own seating preferences. "There's just so many things that you don't know on the surface that come to light really quickly once you put a kid next to another one," she says.
Jack Hamner, the president of the East Side Teachers Association, said 70% of the district's students are English language learners, homeless, foster youth or low income and can't afford to lose access to counselors, social workers and advisors. Those are some severely needy kids. They need their support systems more than ever, Hamner said. The positions they're cutting, these are the mental health and wellness services that our kids desperately need.
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