When graduation balloons popped inside a West Virginia high school, a teacher had to reassure students who ducked for cover that the noise was not gunfire.
Ana Hernandez, a kindergarten teacher visiting from Dilley, Texas, wears an earring in the shape of Texas to show her support for the community while visiting a memorial in Uvalde, Texas, Friday, June 3, 2022."Changes have to be done for us to feel secure in a classroom as a teacher for students also to feel secure and safe in a classroom," said Hernandez.
For any teacher standing in front of a classroom in 21st century America, the job seems to ask the impossible. Already expected to be guidance counselors, social workers, surrogate parents and more to their students, teachers are sometimes called on to be protectors, too.The U.S. public school landscape has changed markedly since the Columbine school shooting in Colorado in 1999, and Salfia said teachers think about the risks every day.
Schools nationwide have been dealing with widespread episodes of misbehavior since the return to in-person learning, which has been accompanied by soaring student mental health needs. In growing numbers, teens have been turning to gun violence to resolve spur-of-the-moment conflicts, researchers say.
The three employees watched in horror less than two weeks later as news of the Uvalde shooting unfolded. “Changes have to be done for us to feel secure in a classroom as a teacher for students also to feel secure and safe in a classroom,” she said.Tish Jennings, a University of Virginia education professor specializing in teacher stress and social-emotional learning, said teacher stress becomes contagious.
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