On Teaching and Abuse...... When it comes to child safety, we have a long-running knowledge, empathy, and concern gap.....Tonya GJ Prince ...
On Teaching and Abuse......
When it comes to child safety, we have a long-running knowledge, empathy, and concern gap.....Tonya GJ Prince
- Without teachers, the world that we live in now- with all of its advancements and understandings- would not be where and who we are today. Teachers are essential to growth.
- Most teachers are safe adults who impact children in ways that encourage and advance them forward for a lifetime.
- Children deserve far more spaces in this world to feel safe and supported. Next to home, school ought to be at the top of that list.
- Teachers have been instrumental in making protective services aware that there may be a child dealing with abuse.
- Teachers save lives!
- Teachers change lives!
- Teachers are being emotionally and physically harmed in the jobs that they give so much to.
- Teachers are underpaid!
- Also.......Teachers have a mandated duty to keep children safe.
- Teachers must work in concert with parents to keep children safe.
- Teachers and school boards must continue to do better at: ongoing universal background checks, paying attention to "red flags" for abuse & violence among staff & visitors, and better confidential/anonymous reporting.
- Teachers need more consistent, ongoing, expert-level, non-partisan, non-idealogical training around child abuse, child sexual abuse, and domestic violence.
- Teachers could benefit from the support of easier access to more trained and professional healing and helping professionals in each school to aid them in attending to student needs.
- Recognition that teachers are human beings who may struggle with domestic & sexual violence issues and therefore have access to confidential helping professionals and mentors.
**Take a look at these painful and tragic stories and read for yourself why many of us who are parents, grandparents, foster parents, and others who care about children- see EVERYTHING wrong with pouring more sex into schools like running water.
Also, 'exposing children to pornography' is an old and effective grooming tactic. It is a form of child abuse.
As it is, we must make educational spaces safer even as we lag behind.
**Please take care of yourself and stop reading the moment that it becomes too much.
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