In October 2018, a student in a Paris suburb pointed a fake gun at his teacher’s head. In the middle of class.
In November 2021, two 16-year-old teenagers in Iowa beat their Spanish teacher to death because she gave them a bad grade.
On January 6, 2023, a six-year-old child in Virginia killed his teacher with a gun (“I Killed the Bitch!”).
In February 2023, a student at a Florida high school brutally beat his teacher because she confiscated his Nintendo Switch.
That same month in Montreal, a daycare technician who was attacked by students twice in less than four years decided to end her 36-year career.
In October 2023, a 16-year-old student attacked his 65-year-old teacher in Laval.
Etc. etc.
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Ordinary violence
There are many stories like this.
I could fill dozens of columns just by listing them.
Social media is full of videos showing students attacking their teachers.
I am not talking here about terrorist attacks by Islamists like those that cost the lives of French professors Samuel Paty and Dominique Bernard, but about “everyday,” “ordinary” violence.
For example, teachers were beaten for confiscating their students’ phones.
A few days ago, American comedian and commentator Bill Maher spoke on his show Real Time on HBO about the violence against teachers that is increasing in the United States and almost everywhere in the West.
“Students beat their teachers? I was sent to the principal’s office just because I rolled my eyes when the teacher spoke!”
“What happened to our schools? A third of teachers say they have been verbally attacked and one in seven have been physically attacked! No wonder half of teachers are thinking about changing jobs!”
“Parents used to stand on the side of teachers and teach their children to respect their teachers. Now they lose their temper whenever a teacher punishes one of their children, because their little prodigies can’t be wrong! Result: Education has become an impossible task…”
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Macro attacks
The class is full of little bunnies who were never told NO.
Child kings who are convinced they are geniuses and who view the slightest display of authority as a form of abuse.
As Maher says, “Students want to be called by the pronouns “iel” or “im.” Do you know what your pronouns are? “Shut up and listen”!
But we no longer have the right to say that. If a teacher raises his voice against an undisciplined student, he will end up in front of the disciplinary board, not the little brat…
A teacher is nothing more than a souped-up guard anyway, right? Even the government will no longer recognize their expertise unless we recruit new teachers on Kijiji!
How do you expect students to respect you?
