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> My experience made something painfully clear: violence against educators has become so normalized that society now treats it as an expected part of teaching.

I don’t think this is normalized at all.

Something about the ad-riddled website and way this is written makes me wonder if this is even a real article.

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Serious question. Do you know any teachers, especially any special education teachers? They all have stories about the violence they receive, and a lot of them.

Special Ed is a special case- those kids are specifically segregated because they cannot be taught at grade level or be expected to behave safely for their size.

It happens more often in special education, but non special ed teachers have plenty of stories too. Also, special ed teachers are not some underclass and are also deserving of a safe workplace.

I've heard a lot of stories like that, where the teacher gets the short end of the stick and the student gets 0 consequences because of age. At the same time, the article looks like AI writing, so I backed out.

Yeah given that I don't see any statistics in this article, I'm not convinced of a systemic problem.

> I don’t think this is normalized at all.

Oh good, wxw disagrees. They've supplied zero supporting arguments, making discussion impossible, but at least Hacker news knows wxw's position.

If it’s unclear, this isn’t for or against any position, but rather a reminder to post an actual rationale rather than tell people your opinion. wxw’s post contributes nothing not because of ours position but because of its lack of content.

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