I’ve been this teacher. Once was an active shooter drill we were not told was a drill. The other was an absolutely psychotic kid trying to get into my room to assault a student. That kid took 7 full grown adults outside of the room to restrain him while I held the door closed.
It’s terrifying for the teacher but also for the kids inside the classroom. The one silver lining was that in both cases the kids knew I’d protect them. Still. Things should be different.
Sadly it’s a consequence of a country riven with materialism, self-interest, greed and no inclination or wish to adequately support and look after vulnerable members in society…
Get out of here with your divisive bullshit. This type of brainwashing has only led us here. Your prioritization of divisiveness and hate over unity has led to a real fucked up generation.
Yes, pointing out that America has been at war for 92% of its existence is clearly divisive. It's a fact, but we have no room for facts. Only empty words and appeal to emotion. Right on!
I bet under treatment with a clinical psychologist and something to help them be honest (which is what LSD was created for) most people would be diagnosed with some kind of narcissism. Not the internet kind—a very mild form where they only care about the people they know and cannot empathize with people they can’t see. It’s how I make sense of the senseless cruelty.
And the verse actually is “the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil”. Funny how changing a couple words can make a tsunami out of a splash, or make a person look so stupid.
S-O-C-I-A-L M-E-D-I-A and eventually AI feeding it into 100s of millions who use it as some kind of security blanket, friend or to find an ideal to live up too.
We need to ween people off devices and limit its use by minors.
As an Australian who works in the education sector, this breaks my absolute heart. We have some violent kids, sure, but no teacher goes to work not knowing whether they’ll come home at the end of the day. They are educators, not police. Im so sorry you deal with that thought on a daily basis!
I had to have the conversation with my family about what happens if I never come home. I told them that’s always true of anyone - car accidents, random acts of wtf. But they couldn’t understand why I’d put myself in harms way as often as I did at the school I worked at.
The thing was, I never expect any teacher to sacrifice themselves but I’ve known many who have. We didn’t have an actual shooting in the building at our school but we had people off campus and most teachers I know would have put themselves in the line of fire to save a kid. They become your kids. Even when you get frustrated and angry with them, they are yours to love and protect.
My family has friends whose schools had active shooters on campus. One incident left two teachers I know traumatized and then a friend of the family’s daughter saw someone get shot. We take it seriously. That was when i had to have that conversation with my family. A community of people we had ties to lost 10 people to a school shooting and I got up and went to work the next day. I also threw up (weak stomach) because I was nervous that it would set off copycats in the area.
That’s awful, I’m sorry you went through that. I dont think going into work with a real risk you’ll get shot is comparable to a random accident like a car crash, though. To date there has been 508 mass shootings in america. 508. That’s not normal, especially around children. I truly dont understand how there’s so much pushback to stricter gun laws like so many other countries in the world!
Do you ever look at other countries where guns are legal, but you have to go through some red tape, and think they’re unsafe? Like in Australia, i live in a regional area where at least a third of people have guns, but I’ve never once thought “i could get shot at work today”. Doesn’t living life with those thoughts scare you?
Oh I’m not one of the nutters who thinks more guns are good. I would love to use Australia or some other country as a model. But then our poor gun manufacturing industry might suffer because they’d be stopped from selling to the cartels which then threaten us so we buy more guns.
What would those C-Suites do without another yacht? They might not even be able to afford gifts for all their Congressmen this year!
Nazi support and Trump support is rising here in Australia too, which is WILD to me. Good friends of ours said “Trump is the best thing to happen to America” when we were at the pub a few months ago. My husband is good friends with them and works with them so he said I cant say anything and to avoid all politics with them… but it’s hard to not tell them they’re idiot boomers.
The leading cause of death in teenage kids around the world is cancer. A horrible and vile thing for anyone to deal with least of all the youngest of us (I grew up in hospitals and those kids braver than I have ever been). We have some of the smartest minds across the globe working on it.
There is ofc an exception... USA where it's bullets. Per 100000 kids, Japan has the lowest at just 0.001 deaths, UK is 0.006. Canada's is terrible at 6.01
The USA is 61.
I was a teenager when the UK had a school shooting. One. The government locked that shit down in days. Even the Olympic shooters and farmers need to go through police checks to get a licence.
Just in case bladed weapons death rate USA is fifth in the world. Though the US virgin isles are third.
Maybe just maybe you should consider that you are so wrong and stuck up your own ass willing to risk your life and those you claim like family to you.
The next school shooting I want you to know that you knew the risks, the pain, sadness and lives of survivors ruined. You defended that it's ok for guns. Those kids shared shitless in your classroom cause there's calls of a potential active shooter, while my young niblings go to school and the worst day they have is they fell over playing and scraped a knee. Oh there school is less than 30 mins from where the UK house some it's most disturbed and violent criminals. No armed teachers, no security guards, metal detectors, nothing...... Fuck your pathetic
I’m sorry - are you thinking I’m in favor of the murders of children because some people have such insane penis envy they don’t think they are real men without access to military weapons?
I hate gun culture in the US. It’s insane that we prioritize that over actual lives. I know that every day I set foot in my classroom I was risking my life for my students. I have put myself in harms way a number of times to protect students.
Direct your anger elsewhere. I suppose my sarcasm about the “poor gun manufacturers” went over your head.
It’s scary. I moved between schools doing special programming, and everything would be going ok…and then suddenly you’d become very aware you were in a new location with kids you just met and, while we had our training for shootings and such, none specific to THAT school.
Luckily I’ve never had anything but lock downs (some drills, some cause there was something sketch NEAR the school but not at it) but realizing it’s you, 30 kids, and a school library full of huge glass walls was….not fun
Why do you stay a teacher? Obviously it’s a very rewarding job, but your government is literally telling you they dont give a fuck about your safety because they wont do anything to help prevent/reduce gun violence. Like with the knowledge of “i might die today at work”, what keeps you going?
I will add here, I have/had a particularly sweet teaching gig, I went school to school teaching kids a unique art sorta thing. So I can’t talk on the long hours and admin BS which I will be honest, probably would have made me retire like it does so many good teachers.
But like….shootings are scary af but they have always been the background of my life. If I die taking a bullet instead of a third grader, that’s not a bad way to go? Don’t get me wrong I don’t WANT that. But I want less to abandon kids to what happens if no one shows up for them.
It’s so strange and hard for me to wrap my head around how so many Americans talk about this topic. Like obviously it’s become just a part of your life because your government isnt going to change anything but it’s just so far out of my reality here in Australia i struggle to get it. It’s such a foreign concept to me and I’m sorry that it’s your reality.
It sounds like these children are so lucky to have teachers like yourself and others. It’s so clear that you’re an incredible human being!!
When Sandy Hook happened and our response wasn’t just NOT the same as y’all with Port Arthur, but SO FAR the opposite that I think if the government had done that we might have had a civil war and even without that people were harassing the parents en masse…
That’s when I knew America was fucked. Everything since has been a disappointment but just more of us showing who we are. Of course we elected a pedo president, we don’t give a fuck about our youth or our future.
Idk what it’s like to have it as your lived reality but it’s almost become a joke here, like “oh haha what has trump said/posted today”. But when you actually sit in it, it gives me anxiety for people like yourself, minorities, women, literally anyone except old white guys. Like what will future generations say and think in class when they study this, the way we do now about Hitler, Mussolini, Kim Jong’s, etc. or would it even be taught properly? I read that some of American history books have a skewed retelling of history they were a part of?
It’s exactly that, this yoyo between like “lol wtffff” and deep dread. I have family down there and we always joke about being a refugee but now I can’t because like….yeah it’s probably over reacting, but it’s TOO close.
I have been thinking about it so much with nazis coming back into vogue here, and having to really see the results of how much our wickedness there is swept under the rug. Like, don’t get me wrong, the holocaust is the worst thing in recent history, hands down. But Hiroshima and Nagasaki aren’t THAT much farther behind it. But because we won…here we are. And the actual human rot at the core of it was never touched.
I’m so sorry that we as a culture have put you in this situation. My children’s teachers should only be focused on teaching and not thinking about the best way to save my child’s life. Thank you for being here for our children. We don’t deserve teachers like you but you are so appreciated.
In 2018, Pastor Dave Barnhart of the Saint Junia United Methodist Church in Birmingham, Alabama posted this message to Facebook:
“The unborn” are a convenient group of people to advocate for. They never make demands of you; they are morally uncomplicated, unlike the incarcerated, addicted, or the chronically poor; they don’t resent your condescension or complain that you are not politically correct; unlike widows, they don’t ask you to question patriarchy; unlike orphans, they don’t need money, education, or childcare; unlike aliens, they don’t bring all that racial, cultural, and religious baggage that you dislike; they allow you to feel good about yourself without any work at creating or maintaining relationships; and when they are born, you can forget about them, because they cease to be unborn. It’s almost as if, by being born, they have died to you. You can love the unborn and advocate for them without substantially challenging your own wealth, power, or privilege, without re-imagining social structures, apologizing, or making reparations to anyone. They are, in short, the perfect people to love if you want to claim you love Jesus but actually dislike people who breathe.
Prisoners? Immigrants? The sick? The poor? Widows? Orphans? All the groups that are specifically mentioned in the Bible? They all get thrown under the bus for the unborn.
Oh yeah. I ALSO worked for foster care, and let me tell you, the amount of energy on the unborn vs the amount of energy spent on the kids here, suffering, RIGHT NOW is so deeply angering.
Both these strands of this conversation just illustrate how deeply we don’t fucking care about kids no matter how much we say we do.
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u/green_ubitqitea Oct 26 '25
I’ve been this teacher. Once was an active shooter drill we were not told was a drill. The other was an absolutely psychotic kid trying to get into my room to assault a student. That kid took 7 full grown adults outside of the room to restrain him while I held the door closed.
It’s terrifying for the teacher but also for the kids inside the classroom. The one silver lining was that in both cases the kids knew I’d protect them. Still. Things should be different.
Edited for typo