Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Mother accused of assaulting Miami-Dade teacher" video.

I was a teacher for 30 years. I was physically attacked or had my life threatened a dozen times in my career. Add on to that hundreds of incidents of verbal abuse from parents and students and the stress level of our profession is high. All of the attacks, threats, and abuse came in the last 10 years. When I started out, and for the longest time, teachers had respect. No more. This is what teachers deal with quite a lot and a big reason why young people aren't becoming teachers. And in anticipation of attacks saying I must have somehow deserved this abuse: No, I was never rude, I just did my job. A freshman girl told me that her father and uncles were waiting for me in the parking lot with baseball bats to break my legs and arms because she got a D in my class. I had to have a police escort to my car. That's the difference between when I started and when I finished teaching. When I started: The kid was in trouble for earning bad grades. When I finished: The teacher was in trouble for "giving" the student bad grades. Every student deserves an A, you see, and anything less is an insult.
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