All it takes is one word to capture the fear and trauma of another school shooting for teachers — again. via Meghan_Lopez
“Again. It's devastating each time. It never gets easier each time,” said high school teacher Stacey Harvey. “It keeps happening, and you just start to get a little battle worn.”
“I've had that conversation with my own children, that I would lay my life down for a student here. And that was hard for them to hear, but I know their own teachers have told them that, too,” Hervey said.There is so much trauma that comes with being a teacher and being the one who has to walk children through lockdown drills or help them navigate through"big emotions" anytime a tragedy happens. There is trauma in having to be constantly prepared for the worst.
Hervey is not alone. Between the low pay, post-pandemic stresses, class sizes and school shootings, Amie Baca-Oehlert, president of the Colorado Education Association, says she knows a lot of educators that have decided to leave the profession. She doesn’t blame them. “You reach a point where you almost feel numb to this," Baca-Oehlert said."But also, you reach a point where you are angry. You are, you know, filled with rage and wanting to do something."
The best thing Atchity says people can do for their own mental well-being is to limit exposure to the information causing secondhand trauma. That doesn’t mean burying your head in the sand or completely ignoring what’s happening, but means not dwelling in it. For educators, meanwhile, Atchity encourages them to not wait to seek mental health help if they are struggling and to not try to put it behind them for a prolonged period of time.
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