Opinion | Anne Lutz Fernandez: A new wave of parent-teacher violence is about more than Covid masks. - NBCNewsTHINK
from students and parents. So recent attacks on educators may not seem any different from these sadly familiar acts, but they are — and we should be alarmed by them.
We have research showing the benefits to students of positive parental engagement in schools; we don’t need research to predict harm from the toxic engagement we’re now witnessing. At the most basic level, such incidents teach children that violence can and should be used in self-advocacy and to solve problems. But they also introduce damaging attitudes transmitted to children about their teachers: that they can’t be trusted, don’t care about them, shouldn’t be listened to. We have research showing; we don’t need research to predict harm from the toxic engagement we’re now witnessing.
A decadeslong drumbeat of negativity about schools from politicians and pundits has led Americans to have a low opinion of them nationally. Even so,. This is because they’ve been able to meet and talk with their teachers, hear from their children about them and understand them as professionals and partners invested in their children’s growth — as well as neighbors and human beings.
Public schools are one of the last, most important spaces where we are “we.” They’re where the greatest number of a town’s residents physically gather daily to promote the success of the same project. They’re where community happens, where people from different neighborhoods and backgrounds meet, collaborate and compete and where mutual decision-making takes place.
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