I had a counselor in high school in the rural south, at “Central High”.
In 1976.
I never spoke to him, I believe he was for students who were having major emotional issues.
The eruption of emotional issues today happened precisely the same time as Facebook and other “social media” came to being, and subsequently with iPhones and absolutely unfettered access to the cesspool of internet trolls and other abusers who enjoy torturing children, including other children, on “social media”.
When young girls develop “Tourette’s” and “transgender”, both of which were vanishingly rare, simply by being hypnotized by messages and video, it’s not hard to figure out the problem.
We are not focusing on the real issue.
I like Abagail Shirer’s writing, it is fresh and accessible but I have the perspective of being at least a decade older, and have sophisticated familiarity with internet a span of time greater than her entire adult life. I’ve seen internet morph into something entirely malignant for people who are not skilled at navigating tens of thousands of messages from anonymous people.
Take the phone away, and turn off the network at home.
Sorry, but. Schools are not safe places. Active shooter drills, lockdown drills, and you mean to tell me I am supposed to tell my students that I will be able to stop a sick person with a machine gun from killing people? So all this focus on emotional safety is a bunch of BS and we all know it.
I had a counselor in high school in the rural south, at “Central High”.
In 1976.
I never spoke to him, I believe he was for students who were having major emotional issues.
The eruption of emotional issues today happened precisely the same time as Facebook and other “social media” came to being, and subsequently with iPhones and absolutely unfettered access to the cesspool of internet trolls and other abusers who enjoy torturing children, including other children, on “social media”.
When young girls develop “Tourette’s” and “transgender”, both of which were vanishingly rare, simply by being hypnotized by messages and video, it’s not hard to figure out the problem.
We are not focusing on the real issue.
I like Abagail Shirer’s writing, it is fresh and accessible but I have the perspective of being at least a decade older, and have sophisticated familiarity with internet a span of time greater than her entire adult life. I’ve seen internet morph into something entirely malignant for people who are not skilled at navigating tens of thousands of messages from anonymous people.
Take the phone away, and turn off the network at home.
Unplugging cures unhappiness.
Sorry, but. Schools are not safe places. Active shooter drills, lockdown drills, and you mean to tell me I am supposed to tell my students that I will be able to stop a sick person with a machine gun from killing people? So all this focus on emotional safety is a bunch of BS and we all know it.
I’m not sure what this is apropos?