"Your Child’s School Isn’t Safe"
August 13, 2024
If this is even half true, it's alarming.
Recent national surveys reveal that such anecdotes are not outliers but dishearteningly normal. At the end of July, the American Psychological Association released a survey of 15,000 teachers and other school personnel. They found over 80 percent reported verbal harassment, up from 65 percent before the pandemic, and 56 percent reported incidents of physical aggression. Other representative surveys confirm that rates of violence directed at both students and teachers have doubled from pre-pandemic levels.