In France, a teacher, fed up with rowdy students,
immolated herself in protest, link.
Telling students "This is for you." she doused herself in petrol and lit herself on fire.
A witness reported seeing the teacher;
"... running and on fire. ... a human torch.A student, unclear whether one of the teacher's, thought the whole thing seemed "... totally strange ..."
... students were screaming ..."
I don't know any more about it than we just read.
I would be willing to bet though, she, like most teachers in the
Albuquerque Public Schools, was not getting the help she
needed in her efforts to control the behavior of a bunch of
chronically disruptive students.
Maybe if an APS teacher lights herself on fire, or duct-tapes
some kids mouth shut, the leadership of the APS will get around to doing something with chronically disruptive students, beside sticking them back in a classroom.
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I've always said every site administrator shopuld teach 1 class in the school so they can see the actual climate and challenges their schools have.
Every tower admin should subdstitute at least once a week as a requirement so they can gauge the climate in various schools.
Otherwise they are "guessing"and running on assumptions.
OF course they will never do this... it makes too much sense.
I've heard board members say it would be a great experience for them too. I've never heard of one of them actually doing it.
the Board needs to show some leadership and push it!
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