My takeaway from the NHJ discourse is that America continues to be unreasonably polarized between people who think the only thing that matters is the other students and the only thing that matters is funding.
Managing the school is important!
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You need funding to manage well, and I'm not talking about hiring more administrators. For a long time now, teachers have been told that they have to handle all behavior concerns short of outright assault in the classroom, while they are trying to teach. This is obviously bad. 1/
Sep 22, 2026 · 3:15 PM UTC
This trend is just "accepted" now but it needs to be reversed. You can't just "send a kid to the principal's office" now, even though lots of Boomers and GenXers who don't work in schools won't believe this. You also need funding for alternative programs that remove disruptive 2/