I would say if they are true someone probably should have went to the news or the state board of education or the feds.

And risk losing their job of 20 years? Nobody is going to do that, especially after Act 10, especially since they only need to put up with the offending child for one year before a new one with a different deficiency comes in.

The tree thing happened. If I remember correctly, the child in question was actually decent at math and science, but they had issues with English and writing heavy courses. A special education classroom where they could get specific attention during that one class and be reintegrated with the rest of the school during math and science courses would have probably helped them a lot more than humiliating them by putting them in senior English did.

I don't think that teachers should lie to parents about what is being taught, but I also don't think it's right to film every single thing that a teacher does in order for their parents to watch it and look for something to attack the teacher on and get them fired. Would you want to work where every second of your shift was carefully monitored by someone who had a grudge against you, waiting for you to slip up and read a personal text message during a lull in the day, to wear a shirt indicating support of a different sports team, or to not do any part of your job in a way that they disagree with? Teacher morale is already on the ropes, why worsen it?

Children do a good job of relaying what they hear at school back to their parents. The important "wtf is that teacher saying?" stuff gets caught pretty easily through this. If they are able to take every single motion you make at work and claim that it's all supporting some ulterior motive, then it's not good.

Before we go any further, I think we agree on the cameras. Some extra cameras outside and in high traffic inside areas for the police to monitor and use for retroactive crime-solving/emergency situation intelligence gathering are acceptable. Sticking them in classrooms with the intention of spying on everything a teacher does is going too far.

I also want to clarify that I believe that there are plenty of responsible gun owners in Mineral Point and that there are plenty of people who aren't meth heads there. There haven't been any serious shootings there and the worst they've had is a few kids bringing loaded firearms they swiped from their parents' unlocked gun cabinets to school for show and tell before.