Teachers need support from legislators, parents

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Teachers need support from legislators, parents

We’ve all seen the shocking videos and news reports of teachers being attacked by their students, a serious situation that is obviously putting these people who are trying to do their job in great danger.

It is a deplorable and disgusting situation that reflects a total lack of respect for authority and should not be tolerated under any circumstances.

What we are seeing in these young people is a clear reflection of parental disregard for their responsibility when they choose to have these children. Lack of supervision, lack of parental involvement, lack of respect and lack of proper upbringing has resulted in our public schools, law enforcement and government social services forced to deal with this very bad situation.

We hear all the time how good, quality educators are leaving the profession, fed up with their inability to do their job for fear of becoming victim of student assault.

We know of no successful career-minded teacher wanting to do what they do best on a daily basis and having to deal with society’s failures or being assaulted by disrespectful teen thugs who have no interest whatsoever in education or even wanting to better themselves.

This is a sad state of affairs that has gotten to be as bad as it is due to generations of people with no morals, lack of respect and total dependence on government subsidies that include such things as free government housing, free government child care, free government health care, free government food stamps, free government tax dollars for such things as cell phones, utility costs and more. All of this is without much, if any, government demands for self-dependency.

Let’s face it, being a teacher today isn’t what it use to be, and sadly job retention is becoming a problem due to student violence, uncontrollable discipline issues and growing bureaucratic interference.

We weren’t all that shocked to learn that in Arkansas after just three years on the job, roughly 1 in 3 teachers leaves the profession, according to a Bureau of Legislative Research report just released.

As expected, stress and workload are top reasons, followed by salary and retirement benefits. To stay in the profession, teachers said, more pay and better benefits would help, but reducing paperwork and administrative burdens was the No. 2 priority for improving retention.

Let us point on in the report that teacher salaries at each Arkansas school district Rogers, the No. 1, district, paid an average of $59,732 to teachers. Hughes, you know the small community near Horseshoe Lake, which ranked last of the 236 districts, paid an average of $35,132. The median salary was $43,015.

Pouring more tax dollars into government entities or their problems hardly ever solves what is wrong, rather a way politicians use to deceptively convince their constituents they actually care and are doing something about it.

What actually needs to be done is for these politicians to make tough and unpopular decisions that can and will address the issues government has created in the very first place. But, these career politicians won’t do that for their own self-serving reasons.

BIBLE VERSE

And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live. But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour? And Jesus answering said, A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among thieves, which stripped him of his raiment, and wounded him, and departed, leaving him half dead. And by chance there came down a certain priest that way: and when he saw him, he passed by on the other side.

10:27-31

St.Luke