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Dec. 12, 2023 - Dennis Prager Show
06:21
Teachers Are Quitting Because Students Have Become Unruly
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Here's an article from the New York Post.
Teachers are quitting in droves.
This is the headline.
Did you see this one?
You sent it to me?
So I can infer that you saw it.
Had I not been a talk show host, I would have been a detective.
Teachers are quitting in droves because they're scared of student violence and a lack of punishment.
This is another one.
Left destruction.
But the teachers are almost all on the left.
Hey, teachers, why do you think they're not being punished for being violent against you?
Because the lefties who run the teachers' unions and the schools and the superintendents of schools and the principals of schools all protested, not all, nearly all, protested that it was racist because more...
Kids of color were being suspended or expelled from class than white kids.
But more kids of color are beating up teachers than white kids.
That's the reason.
But doesn't matter to the left.
To the left, the result, not why it's happening, is what matters.
The result is more black kids.
More Hispanic kids, percentage-wise.
Then white kids were being punished for violence against teachers.
And now the teachers are quitting in droves.
And I wonder what percentage of them will say we were wrong.
Our damn teachers' unions.
And try to usually use some pejorative when you speak of teachers' unions because of the destruction that they have, the havoc that they have caused in the lives of a whole generation of young people.
Teachers unions have been worse than TikTok.
That's bad.
It was getting to the point that it was scary.
There were a few days that I was scared to go to school.
Stacey Sawyer, a former 8th grade teacher from Cape Coral, Florida, told the New York Post.
The veteran teacher, 55, quit last June, she said, after student misbehavior spiraled out of control following the pandemic.
Another liberal left idea.
Let's not have schools open.
Another idea of the teachers' unions.
I am on record as calling it utterly and totally indefensible, morally, pedagogically, not politically.
No, no, that was fine.
The people on the left loved it.
It was a dress rehearsal for a police state.
I wrote that in 2020, in early 2020. That was the title of my column, Dress Rehearsal for a Police State.
So there's another way in which the teachers' unions and the left ruined kids.
Fights regularly broke out, ending with teachers hit and punched, and one student allegedly hospitalized after being slammed on the ground.
And this is Cape Coral, Florida.
Even though I ran a really tight classroom, the disrespect just skyrocketed.
Probably 75% of my time was dealing with discipline, Sawyer said.
The stress of it was too much.
I even hated just driving down the road to school.
school.
I didn't want to go anymore.
So after 30 years in the classroom, Sawyer decided enough was enough.
She now owns a small art studio.
I knew that if I didn't get out soon, I just felt something was going to happen to me, she said.
I was going to either get hurt, or I was just going to say something I shouldn't.
Oh, that's right.
Yeah, teachers might say something they shouldn't.
Oh, OMG.
Videos of circulars are...
There's a picture here of kids fighting kids in the classroom.
Well, let's see.
What might be some of the reasons?
No fathers is a big one.
And no discipline is a big one.
Social media is a big one.
No religion is a big one.
No father on earth and no father in heaven.
No fixed code.
They have Fauci's code.
They have the Fauci code.
I think I know what's right.
I follow my own values.
That's right.
Beating up a teacher is one of my values.
You dissed me.
I hit you.
The whole notion of being dissed.
You realize the narcissism that is involved there?
You can't disrespect me.
Disrespect means saying something accurate about them to have them be on the up-and-up.
70% of teachers, principals, and district administrators agreed the problem is only getting worse in an April survey by Ed Week, Education Week.
General behavior issues have become a bigger challenge in the job.
Colin Sharkey, Executive Director of the Association of American Educators.
What's the difference between the American Education Association and the education of American educators?
If it preceded the pandemic, but it certainly accelerated because of the pandemic.
No, no, no, no.
I don't blame the person.
Who is that?
Colin.
I don't blame Colin.
But it's not true.
It's because of the lockdowns.
And again, remember, he said it preceded the pandemic.
Just the pandemic made it worse.
But it wasn't.
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