Proceed With Caution

Kind of a scary title for today's post. We send our precious gifts to school and we believe they will be absolutely and completely protected from harm. I know I always thought that. And thankfully, my children never had an issue with teacher bullying. By harm, I mean verbal and physical harm. We were blessed with amazing educators for all of them. And, my kids were all completely different. Truly, we had awesome teachers. Our community  is blessed with so many teachers and counselors who care about our kids. What I've learned though over the past two years is parents need to be aware that teacher bullying does happen and even when kids tell parents about it, most likely nothing will happen. I've heard of several incidents where a teacher made students feel threatened and uncomfortable. You say, well aren't there video camera's? Yep.. There sure are video cameras but make no mistake those cameras probably will not have sound. You say, but hey, it's 2017 certainly schools can have a good surveillance camera with sound? Yes. Yes they could if they wanted to. No sound is most likely done by design. And, that will most likely protect the teacher who is using verbal abuse.

I'm just passing this on because it is something I didn't know until I was sort of thrown into a hot mess of a situation which if you've read the previous post's is all God driven.  I was naive to think the school had camera's so our kids are always safe. And, I'm sure they're used for that, but the times the video was used to show a teacher bullying, it was used to protect them. It angers the stew out of me that our kids walk away feeling like the school failed them. Ridiculous!

Your child will probably never have an issue with a teacher because teachers for the most part are amazing people who would never hurt a kid. My dad was a teacher, I teach pre-k and I have so many amazing friends who educate and work with kids.

So Proceed With Caution is just food for thought.  File this tidbit in the back of your brain. Hopefully your child will never have to use the record on their phone but if the situation arises be sure the sound is on!

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