TikToker @ichoose2loveme012079 has been teaching for almost 18 years. She currently teaches middle school, and she has never had a fully quiet classroom during lockdown drills, so she is unwilling to risk her life for kids who can’t behave.
Recently, her school held a lockdown drill, and her students were acting up, not taking the drill seriously. Someone had to come in and talk to them.
They received consequences for their inability to behave properly, but @ichoose2loveme012079 just thought the whole thing was ridiculous.
Teachers are already expected to do so much for their students. In the case of an emergency, teachers are even expected to sacrifice their lives for their students. However, teachers also have their own children and their own lives.
Previously, @ichoose2loveme012079 has been in situations at other schools where a bomb threat occurred. It turned out that a student in her classroom was making the threat.
A couple of other students knew about it, and they were yelling, screaming, and just causing more drama.
She and some other students who knew how to behave were staying quiet and hiding in a corner. The rest of the class wouldn’t quiet down no matter what she did.
Later, she found out that the student was arrested for making a false threat. Even though there wasn’t really a bomb on the premises, that student still put everyone in danger.
“The world is in a state of confusion and crisis right now,” she stated. “We don’t know what will happen day-to-day, and we need to be prepared.”
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“We need to have classrooms that are quiet when it’s an emergency. And I just think that parents need to be aware of their kids’ behavior.”
“It’s not every parent and every child, because some of them are actually quiet and follow directions and do what they are supposed to do, but some of these other kids are misbehaving and putting everyone at risk.”
In the comments section, many other teachers agreed that they would not sacrifice their lives for kids who can’t behave themselves.
“Last lockdown drill, my sixth graders could not be quiet. We finished, and afterward I went out and pulled up pictures of my parents, my dog, and my cats, and I said, ‘If anything real ever happens, I am 25 years old, and I need to get home to my family. You guys can’t act like that because it could stop all of us from going home.’ Heavy for sixth graders? Maybe. But yelling labubu in the lockdown closet drove me a little nuts,” wrote one user.
“But seriously. Kids ask me all the time what we will do if something bad ever happens. My first response is, ‘I hope that will be the day you listen to me the first time I say something and don’t make me say it 1o times,'” commented another.
“I tell my students I’m not sacrificing myself for hardheaded children. I teach high school,” stated a third.
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