Thread by @hawaiianbrat96

Our children aren’t okay.

We had a lockdown yesterday. Four fights popped off at once literally right at the end of first lunch. We have three lunches. We had to halt launches to clear out every area and snag all those who were involved. 1/?

My students and a few (student) visitors I took in that were stragglers in the hallways when I did a sweep and locked out my hallway’s double doors, were just in disbelief after the adrenaline wore off. 2/?

They were worried about what was going on because it was literally four fights at once. They just knew they were safe but without information, so they still felt unsafe. 3/?

After working through these emotions within class, our school attempted normalcy and held our last class period of the day after getting all three lunches done. 4/?

I then had to work through emotions with another class of students who weren’t even mine for a teacher on my prep because that teacher is out due to personal health. 5/?

Dominantly BIPOC and Hispanic students, all of them did not like this brought on more police presence on campus for the rest of the day. 6/?

We are a school with 2545 students. Outside of teachers who held students in their classroom (roughly 130 teachers) we have maybe 20-25 ESPs and seven administrators. 7/?

Do the math. That’s roughly 157-162 adults to wrangle 2535 students.

And a lockdown happened. 8/?

I am not okay. My students are not okay. Most of their families are not okay.

We are struggling as a school community to get back to normal. 9/9

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We need #SEL services, trainingS, and real-world ways to help these Ss to build better communication, social, and coping skills.

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