"The problem isn’t that schools aren’t safe enough, but that students don’t feel secure enough in school communities. Emotionally healthy, well-adjusted youth don’t tear through their classrooms armed with weaponry. And we can do our part in keeping schools safe by giving out hugs like candy on Halloween, helping kids feel a sense of belonging, of welcome, and making them feel safe enough to seek help when they need it. (Of course, we can also do our part by making guns harder to access, but that’s a whole other column.)"This feeling of security is what the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calls “school connectedness,” which it defines as “the belief held by students that adults and peers in the school care about their learning as well as about them as individuals.” When students feel more connected to school, the CDC says, they are more likely to engage in healthy behaviors and succeed academically."
Source:
https://hechingerreport.org/for-safer-schools-we-need-more-hugs-not-more-guns/
This all too clearly shows that academics are without question most detached from reality than anyone else on God's green Earth...except of course for university administrators and politicians.
ReplyDeleteIf some maniac is bearing down on me with a gun, the time for hugs has long, long passed. Might we think about doing something about the guns, while we still have time to think?
Oops, sorry, I mean:
ReplyDeleteThis all too clearly shows that academics are without question more detached from reality than anyone else on God's green Earth...except of course for university administrators, ed-school pedagogues, and politicians.
If some maniac is bearing down on me with a gun, the time for hugs has long, long passed. Might we think about doing something about the guns, while we still have time to think?