Spartanburg schools to try new approach to behavior issues [GoupState.com]

I have a major, MAJOR problem with ANY school system that embarks on being "trauma informed" without first looking at the ENTIRE picture... the quality of Work life. I helped develop the AFT/BATs "Quality of Work life Survey" last year, after we learned of ar least 4 teachers who had completed suicide within just a week or two. Our unscientific survey showed that one of the 'markers' listed in this "research" (higher test scores) was actually a deep source of problems for both students and teachers. In fact, to link a trauma informed program to a trauma producing one is insane and serves to "legitimatize" the education industrial complex (Pearson) largely culpable for producing stress in the first place. The USA is behind most other western nations in that we have no "workplace bullying" legislation. While our "bottom line" where litigation occurs is linked to protected status of minorities, or IIED, the European workplace model has a much HIGHER "bottom line"... When standards of dignity in the workplace are absent. 

This program is in a "right to work" state, where employees can be fired for speaking out against problems in education. Please people, look at the WHOLE picture in education (why the Opt Out movement is important, the abysmal conditions of facilities in places like Detroit and Philadelphia, the insanity in Common Core, the push to de-professionalize the teaching profession, the failure to investigate the bureaucracy that bullies..,) 

Find our survey. Read it. It's just the tip of the iceberg. Recognize that schools cannot put band aids on ACEs via a program, when inflicting trauma elsewhere. 

http://www.aft.org/sites/defau...urveyresults2015.pdf

Then read of the legislation written into ESSA as a direct result of our work. THIS LEGISLATION will allow school communities to look at the whole picture, rather than putting band aids on. http://badassteachers.blogspot...lace-team-meets.html