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[joebanks]

Saw my daughter's new school room; the school is a much younger building, clean and bright. I warned her when she got the job that she will have to watch her politics; it's not that she brings politics into her classroom but personal opinions will come through. Rural Ohio is light years from inner city Cleveland. One sad thing a teacher has to do in these times is she has to figure the best way to arrange her classroom so that her stundents will have a place to cower in case of an armed attack.

Hot and muggy, really just muggy, though i did get my Sunday evening bike ride in.

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[rafqa]

Wow. Can I hear more of the story? She was in inner city Cleveland before? and now-- where? Is that where she's living? What grade?

I would think someone besides the teacher should decide that, or at least weigh in, on what a good arrangement might be. Like the tactical squad.

Schools have always been unsafe in some ways, but this is beyond all bets. Maybe we're getting to the point where we just can't have them.

[joebanks]

Yes, the school she taught in for the past three years was in the city - where does "inner" begin and end; probably with the shootings that happend across the street while school was in session.

She moved "down state" to be with her fiancee at the end of the school year, to Delaware Ohio about 30 miles north of columbus. She applied for positions in a 30 mile radius and found one 30 miles (again) north of Delaware. She will teach 5th grade and has a good feeling about the school, reminds her of her grade school.

It's not an official thing where she has to set up her class for safety but, common sense and Yes, there should be guildlines.

Wouldn't certain segements of society love the end of education"

BTW, the first school where she interviewed, she was questioned to the point where she finally had to say the ethnicty of the majority of the students she taught was Puerto Rican..she didn't get that job, contaminated i guess.