Teaching ate me alive

[knitter4democracy]

42. At the alternative high school where I taught, that would never have been allowed.

First of all, we made it clear that threats to teachers and/or physical violence toward teachers would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We're lucky that the police here are pretty good, and they came to the school fast when needed. The few times anything happened (good school overall, so violence wasn't usually a problem), cops came, the rest of the kids saw what happened, and fewer and fewer pushed that boundary.

It's our job to set boundaries and not let the kids cross them. If a parent doesn't understand that and starts pushing the boundary, too, then it's our job to not let that parent cross the boundary either. The principal in that case needed to get some ovaries/balls, file a restraining order (which schools can do), and make sure the cops understood that he'd go right up the chain of command until something happened.