{"id":1712,"date":"2018-02-24T20:44:56","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1712"},"modified":"2018-02-24T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T20:44:56","slug":"florida-school-shooting-on-arming-teachers-on-conflict-resolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=1712","title":{"rendered":"Florida school shooting; on “arming” teachers; on conflict resolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

On the Florida school shooting and “arming” teachers… \u00a0I just read a post from a teacher who wrote that if we want to “arm” her: arm her with more teacher’s aids so she can give more individual attention to her students; arm her with more school counselors; arm her with less standardized test criteria so she can focus on more creative, and individualized, teaching; arm her with smaller classroom numbers, so, again, she can have more time for individual students… \u00a0It was as if she’d read our position paper on education<\/a>. \u00a0Note: \u00a0I talked with an educator from the Bath, Ohio school system today. \u00a0He said a proportionally large number of students at his school come from poor (“…like trailer park”) backgrounds. \u00a0Because of the poverty, he said, there is sometimes trouble at home. \u00a0This is compounded by some of these kids being made fun of by the more popular, more well off, students at school. \u00a0This, he said, can sometimes become a perfect recipe for a kid psychologically exploding. \u00a0In our cross country research, we learned at Wilmington College’s Peace Center in Ohio that they have weekend Conflict Resolution events, bringing together key kids from different school peer groups to get to know each other, to see each other behind the masks, so to speak. \u00a0I’m told this is effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On the Florida school shooting and “arming” teachers… \u00a0I just read a post from a teacher who wrote that if we want to “arm” her: arm her with more teacher’s aids so she can give more individual attention to her …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1713,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1712\/revisions\/1713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}