Teachers Across the Country are Quitting Due to Student Violence

Teachers Across the Country are Quitting Due to Student Violence - The Florida Capital Star

by Eric Lendrum   All across the country, school teachers are beginning to resign due to a rising fear of violence from students, with many acts largely going unpunished by authorities. As reported by the New York Post, student behavior has gotten progressively worse after the Chinese Coronavirus pandemic, with fights breaking out more frequently, and some altercations leading to teachers sustaining injuries in the process of trying to break up …

‘Tired of being disrespected’: Teacher quits amid rise in student violence

Student fighting is surging in schools across the U.S., causing some teachers to leave the profession out of fear for their own safety. "I just could see over the last several years that the misbehavior was getting so bad that most of my time in my classroom wasn't in teaching anymore, I was trying to put out fires. And so I got tired of being disrespected," former teacher Stacey Sawyer said.

Teachers are quitting because they’re scared of student violence — and a lack of punishment

Nearly half of public education employees who left the profession last year resigned, and a third of teachers say they’re likely to leave their job in the next two years — with many citing unruly students and a lack of meaningful discipline.