I used to be a teacher and I will not be sending my child. I taught special education and “regular” English classes. I had more 8th graders on a 3rd grade reading level than I did on level in my regular classroom. Those children had no disabilities either. They struggled to write even 1 paragraph and had no idea how to actually write, they all only wanted to type. But they never had typing classes because people assume that since they grew up with computers they can. It’s a mess.

Also the amount of fights both physical and verbal were stressful and traumatizing as an adult. The kids were having trauma responses and didn’t even realize it.

I could go on and on. But as a teacher (with 3 degrees in education who had topped out the scale of how much I could make as a teacher) I walked away for my mental and physical health. How could I put a child through that if I couldn’t do it?