Were you involved in the incident? Were you in the elevator?

This is a myth - teachers can be fired. Administrators need detailed records showing why the teacher should be fired. It’s a pain in the butt, but if a teacher is bad and the admin wants to get rid of them, they need to collect evidence.
The Union is there to make sure this happens and it’s not just random. The problem is, many administrators are just as overwhelmed as teachers and simply don’t have the time or energy to do it. It’s a systemic problem…bad teachers slip through cracks just like bad students slip through cracks, just like bad workers in the private sector slip through cracks. It’s usually because someone at the top is too focused on something else to notice or decides it’s not worth the effort.

Everyone involved in this needs to lose their medical license and go to jail.

When they get out let me know which McDonald's they're working at for the rest of their lives so I can go be mean to them.

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Something feels deeply wrong about an employer forcefully holding, treating, diagnosing one of their own employees. Especially after an accusation of neglect.

Even if their intentions were good it seems like a huge conflict of interest.

Pay is a huge one, but also the lack of additional supports for special needs has made teaching terrible. I know several teachers that quit because they struggled with dealing with difficult kids in the classroom that could have been dealt with by having aids or additional options to support those students. Instead, they just put them in the class and expect the teacher to have the normal classwork, plus modified classwork to address special needs, and be able to provide everyone the amount of support they need. Add in frustrated parents and politics and the pay becomes 5x too little.

If you know anything about Western Psych, this is not surprising. I try never to send clients there.

A bit of an aside, but Ezra Klein recently did a show about issues with men and boys and one of things highlighted was the lack of male teachers. This problem will only snowball as boys are less likely to pursue teaching if there are no men as their teachers.

So he was not hospitalized against his will?

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So then what really happen according to your source?

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Isn't that breaking HIPPA by looking into records and checking if a patient was or wasn't there and then telling others?

What funds do they manage and allocate?

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McKean would like to kindly tell you to f yourself 😂

Is there another article or something or do you know a guy

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I couldn’t disagree more with regards to Western Psyche

I know many teachers with a masters in elementary Ed and a minor in speech development and we're getting paid over 90+ per year. Four of them quit and only in their 30's because of how ridiculous the NYC Ed system became. The dept of Ed needs to seriously look at all the BS . Sorry , but indoctrination is at the top of the list. They will continue to leave and get poor quality teachers. The children are also leaving and going to private or Catholic schools, most aren't even Catholic but it's cheaper than the private schools. I also know two teachers that left and moved to TX and FL and are currently teaching there. We are going to see a major shift in certain states in the upcoming years for many things, but especially education standards in the public school system.

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> When talking with Hoffman about staff’s concerns, he allegedly told them to “buckle up” as they would be serving “the Negro” cocktail the following week,

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> “Hoffman told me and a coworker that he hates political correctness and that anyone who has an issue needs to ‘buckle up,’ because next week he would release a black cocktail called ‘The Negro,’

How so

I do think it's a lazy diagnosis but it definitely is hard to add a name to it. I agree with what the problem is but I don't think that psychiatrists are as nefarious as you're making them out to sound. There is definitely some maladaptive behavior going on and the psychiatrists are trying to help reduce that. I never worked on the medical side of things and was only concerned with the psychology of things. I think we'd probably agree that a lot of bad parenting leads to issues that we see in people diagnosed with ODD and I'm a huge proponent of therapy to help people overcome that. There are some fringe cases where certain people are so disregulated that they need some sort of mood stabilizer just to maintain their emotions enough to make progress, but I think the vast majority are capable over improving their lives without meds. They also want to need to change their lives. No person with behavioral challenges changes based on involuntary treatment. Personally, I think involuntary commitment should be reserved for psychotic and mood disorders. Also most likely autism and certain time of intellectual and cognitive disorders.

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