Florida’s Teacher of the Year Bluntly Writes WHY School Violence Is Out of Control

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Florida’s Teacher of the Year Bluntly Writes WHY School Violence Is Out of Control


February 19, 2018


by Daisy Luther
Kelly Guthrie Raley has been teaching for 20 years and currently educates kids at Eustis Middle School in Lake County, Florida. Just last month she was named the 2017-2018 Teacher of the Year.

The day after the horrific shooting that took place at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, she posted a rant on Facebook that has since gone viral. In the post, she talked about parental responsibility, compassion, and respect…and more than 823,000 people have “liked” the post and agreed with it, while more than 649,000 have shared it with others.

Here’s what Mrs. Raley had to say.
Okay, I’ll be the bad guy and say what no one else is brave enough to say, but wants to say. I’ll take all the criticism and attacks from everyone because you know what? I’m a TEACHER. I live this life daily. And I wouldn’t do anything else! But I also know daily I could end up in an active shooter situation.

Until we, as a country, are willing to get serious and talk about mental health issues, lack of available care for the mental health issues, lack of discipline in the home, horrendous lack of parental support when the schools are trying to control horrible behavior at school (oh no! Not MY KID. What did YOU do to cause my kid to react that way?), lack of moral values, and yes, I’ll say it-violent video games that take away all sensitivity to ANY compassion for others’ lives, as well as reality TV that makes it commonplace for people to constantly scream up in each others’ faces and not value any other person but themselves, we will have a gun problem in school. Our kids don’t understand the permanency of death anymore!!!

I grew up with guns. Everyone knows that. But you know what? My parents NEVER supported any bad behavior from me. I was terrified of doing something bad at school, as I would have not had a life until I corrected the problem and straightened my ass out. My parents invaded my life. They knew where I was ALL the time. They made me have a curfew. They made me wake them up when I got home. They made me respect their rules. They had full control of their house, and at any time could and would go through every inch of my bedroom, backpack, pockets, anything! Parents: it’s time to STEP UP! Be the parent that actually gives a crap! Be the annoying mom that pries and knows what your kid is doing. STOP being their friend. They have enough “friends” at school. Be their parent. Being the “cool mom” means not a damn thing when either your kid is dead or your kid kills other people because they were allowed to have their space and privacy in YOUR HOME. I’ll say it again. My home was filled with guns growing up. For God’s sake, my daddy was an 82nd Airborne Ranger who lost half his face serving our country. But you know what? I never dreamed of shooting anyone with his guns. I never dreamed of taking one! I was taught respect for human life, compassion, rules, common decency, and most of all, I was taught that until I moved out, my life and bedroom wasn’t mine…it was theirs. And they were going to know what was happening because they loved me and wanted the best for me.

There. Say that I’m a horrible person. I didn’t bring up gun control, and I will refuse to debate it with anyone. This post wasn’t about gun control. This was me, loving the crap out of people and wanting the best for them. This was about my school babies and knowing that God created each one for greatness, and just wanting them to reach their futures. It’s about 20 years ago this year I started my teaching career. Violence was not this bad 20 years ago. Lack of compassion wasn’t this bad 20 years ago. And God knows 20 years ago that I wasn’t afraid daily to call a parent because I KNEW that 9 out of 10 would cuss me out, tell me to go to Hell, call the news on me, call the school board on me, or post all over FaceBook about me because I called to let them know what their child chose to do at school…because they are a NORMAL kid!!!!!

Those 17 lives mattered. When are we going to take our own responsibility seriously?

 

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What do you think?


I would have loved for my children to have been in Mrs. Raley’s class because not only is it obvious that she really cares, but also that she has an abundance of common sense, something that has been notably absent in our politically correct school systems.

I raised my kids in much the same way Mrs. Raley refers to having grown up: with rules, curfews, and consequences for their actions. My girls weren’t totally sheltered – they saw violence on television and in movies – but we discussed it. I taught them empathy for other human beings and all creatures. They too, have had access to guns, and know how to use them, but I’ve never once been worried that they’d use them on another human being for any other reason than self-defense in a life-or-death situation.

Like every other parent, I now worry every time my daughters walk out to door to attend their college classes. Because, honestly, it can happen anywhere.

But I sincerely agree with Mrs. Raley.

Guns aren’t the problem. The current culture is the problem.

What do you think? Share your thoughts in the comments section below.

 

[Sophia Sinclair]

Absolutely Agree!

My sister-in-law's neighbour is raising a "Not my Johnny" boy. She can't stop her son from playing with him outside but won't allow him into her home anymore due to his direct disobedience to house rules and outright lies. She also doesn't want my nephew playing in his unsupervised house knowing full well what trouble this kid may instigate and that he's not above trying to blame the mischief on her son. According to her others on their stretch of street feel the same way.

Last Easter I was over and we watched him kicking a soccer ball back and forth from her lawn to a girl accross the street at the end of their driveway. We figure he was on her lawn and not his own in the hopes of enticing my nephew out to play. First he hit what we believe to be his grandparents car on its hood, then mine on the back bumper. My sister-in-law nicely told him to be more careful. Not 10 minutes later he hits my car a second time on the nearside skirt. I went out, never leaving the side of my car, which was a good 15 feet from this kid, using a firm tone explaining to him that cars are expensive and I'm not going to pay for any damage he does to it. He replied that he didn't mean to and I countered that I know that but it's not the point and that he has a slow learning curve. Trust me when I say he looked fine to me.

Later, the parents come over saying he was scared, thinking I was going to hit him, etc. My sister-in-law asked who the other child playing with him at the time was and whether they had asked them what happened. Of course the answer was no. They told her they didn't appreciate the 'slow learning curve' comment. She pointed out that he had already been told once to not hit the cars before the incident and that was that. While this was going on I turned to my nephew and told him that I don't hit kids and that I hope he doesn't think that I would. His reply, "Boys Name lies all the time".

There are problems in the home so I understand why he has behavioural issues but they need to be addressed sooner rather than later. When the cops are bringing his butt home a few years from now, which is the path he's on, I wonder if the mother will think back and realize that he needed a firm hand, not excuses made for his poor behaviour. Most likely not.

Many parents don't parent anymore!

 

[jazzbox]

I agree that there is a broad cultural problem in the US. The election of Trump is probably the highest expression of a corrupt political and moral culture. But... the ease of gun ownership, the heavy weaponry available and the fetishization of guns in the US are also contributing factors and also need to be addressed. Is it really so hard to see this is not an either/or issue?

Frankly, I think the US is fucked in the longer term. Too many things are broken and I do not see any realistic source of ethical and political regeneration. I think it faces a future as a violent, racially split, kleptocratic plutocracy. Canada has the misfortune to live next door. in the past that was blessing but not anymore.

 

[james t kirk]

A quick google search reveals that the woman who wrote the piece is an alt-right Trump follower who is a firm believer in gun ownership and describes herself on her own Twitter page as a "hunter" and "Christ follower"

Of course she is pro-gun.

The block that the OP links to is put out by a very similar person.

So although I don't disagree with some of her assertions, you have to keep in mind that she and others like her have a definite agenda and that agenda is right wing political gun totting "Make America Great Again".

 

[huckfinn]

I agree that there is a broad cultural problem in the US.

We have some of it here too. The comments about kids behaviour etc. is rampant in Canada too.

 

[oldjones]

Yet another misguided soul who thinks it helps her point by first claiming to be as misguided and awful as anyone can imagine, then telling her audience that terrible, unfounded opinion is theirs. Then going on to talk about guns for a third of the rant that she said was not about guns Not the sort of teacher I'd want influencing my grandson.

The stuff about mental health treatment and parenting made some sense. However the self-righteous, exaggerated portrayal of herself as victim completely undermined it. Wanton killers of children are horrible, having half your face shot off is horrible. Speaking your mind is exactly what we want and expect, even if it's uncomfortable to hear.

Still, she gets a medal for showing up.

 

[legmann]

A quick google search reveals that the woman who wrote the piece is an alt-right Trump follower who is a firm believer in gun ownership

That was implicit right off-the-bat: tacitly place 'blame' on parenting/discipline, while avoiding any mention of the underlying issue (gun control) altogether.

 

[hamermill]

That was implicit right off-the-bat: tacitly place 'blame' on parenting/discipline, while avoiding any mention of the underlying issue (gun control) altogether.

Guns don’t kill people PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

 

[oldjones]

That was implicit right off-the-bat: tacitly place 'blame' on parenting/discipline, while avoiding any mention of the underlying issue (gun control) altogether.

Guncontrol isn't the underlying issue, quite the contrary. It's just one of the simplest most obvious and deadly manifestations, so it's a logical place to do something useful soonest. Besides saving some lives.

Why America's young people are growing up to lose themselves in hopeless opioid addiction, gun violence and gang wars is a much deeper issue that will take at least a generation before any improvement we make now will be seen.

 

[legmann]

Guns don’t kill people PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not; so many people seem to actually believe it.

 

[rhuarc29]

Sadly, responsible, hard-working, moral people are simply not having kids anymore. Instead, irresponsible, drug-addicted, care-free people are. The second group make bad parents. Maybe if the first group didn't have to pay to support both the second group and the second group's children, they'd have more time to be parents themselves.

 

[rhuarc29]

I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not; so many people seem to actually believe it.

The thing with the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" line is that it is both true and disingenuous. People do indeed make the choice. However, a gun is a tool of death. In a shooting, you need both the tool and the choice in order to kill someone. Which brings to light the two ways to prevent shootings: either prevent the choice from being made (mental health support) or prevent access to the tool (gun control).

 

[legmann]

Sadly, responsible, hard-working, moral people are simply not having kids anymore. Instead, irresponsible, drug-addicted, care-free people are. The second group make bad parents. Maybe if the first group didn't have to pay to support both the second group and the second group's children, they'd have more time to be parents themselves.

Even if true, that is besides the point, and shifts focus back to parenting - instead of where it belongs - just as the author did.

 

[oldjones]

I can't tell if that is sarcasm or not; so many people seem to actually believe it.

Don't get sucked in; he just hasn't caught up. Back when that was a popular phrase no one using it could 'splain how it was that Americans closely regulated and controlled all the other tools and toys commonly used to murder (or accidentally injure and kill) others, but guns? Not so much. Then they'd get soppy about the darned Second Amendment. And get all het up about Dictators lurking just around the corner, but thanks to guns aplenty they'd stay there. No chance of an unelected blowhard, ignoring votes and doing everything by Executive Order getting into their White House.

Actually, I think ham's already used that one too. He's just well back of his own curve.

 

[legmann]

Guncontrol isn't the underlying issue, quite the contrary. It's just one of the simplest most obvious and deadly manifestations.

Understood.

No chance of an unelected blowhard, ignoring votes and doing everything by Executive Order getting into their White House.

Ironic, isn't it?

The thing with the "guns don't kill people, people kill people" line is that it is both true and disingenuous.

It is both semantics, and a tired defense employed by the gun lobby and its supporters, nothing else.

 

[Smallcock]

Sadly, responsible, hard-working, moral people are simply not having kids anymore. Instead, irresponsible, drug-addicted, care-free people are. The second group make bad parents. Maybe if the first group didn't have to pay to support both the second group and the second group's children, they'd have more time to be parents themselves.

Dysgenics galore.

 

[james t kirk]

Guns don’t kill people PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE.

More correctly, "People with guns kill people"