Comments by "Daniel Bradford" (@Falconlibrary) on "Students DEMAND MORE Police In School" video.

  1. I was a teacher for thirty years and at one time, I taught in the Palm Springs School district. We had so many schools where violence was so bad that teachers were either quitting to go to other districts or transferring to the few schools in our district that weren't plagued with serious violence. I worked in one of the "good" schools, and we had fights several times a day between students--I was also threatened numerous times by parents with serious bodily harm and even murder. And Palm Springs is far, far from the worse school district in California, or indeed, this country. Schools don't exist in isolation: they reflect what's going on in society. The family unit has broken down, the middle class is shrinking, there is no respect for legitimate authority, and the result is chaos. No, it's not wokeness nor CRT nor cellphones nor the teachers unions (which are often toothless, despite what the public believes) that are to blame--it starts with the family. Kids aren't taught respect and discipline at home, so they don't show any at school. Teachers cannot raise children nor give them values; we can only reinforce what's being taught in the home. Turning our schools into prisons isn't going to fix the problem. The problem is outside the schools. When I started teaching, one call home to the parents usually fixed all but the worst discipline problems. Now, the kids call their parents and the parents threaten the teacher with violence and a lawsuit, and sue the school district at the drop of a hat (intimidation by lawyers is what I call it). People seem angrier every year and more and more prone to violence, and the very idea of granting authority or respect to anyone else--a police officer, a teacher--offends them. I don't know how we fix this, but I know that unless we address what's going on outside schools, our schools will continue to be chaotic and dysfunctional.
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  2. I was a teacher for thirty years. Discipline is racist, apparently.
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  3. Just to be clear: I won't reply to any comments that say this is the fault of the teachers unions, or woke educators, or cellphones, etc. Because none of those are major issues. Unions have been calling for SAFER schools--why would the unions want schools to be more dangerous? And the nutjob "educators" you see on TikTok are a small, noisy, visible minority who won't last in the profession more than a few years. I lasted thirty years and you have to be tough to do that, because it's a hell of a job. The main thing that's changed? Parents are now our enemy--they send their kids to school with the attitude of "F the teachers". When you talk to these parents, you find out that they're angry at other things in their lives (high cost of living, bad jobs, strained relationships, broken marriages) and they have to take that anger on SOMEBODY--so they give it to their kids and have them take it to school. We can't get new teachers in the profession because they know they'll be underpaid, overworked, abused, and made the whipping boy for every politician and every parent with an axe to grind. I have one word of advice for any young person thinking of becoming a teacher: DON'T.
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