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Some people do volunteer with kids, but these days you have to pass an enhanced DBS (Divisional Barring Service) check before they'll let you anywhere near the kids even if you have kids of your own.
I got bitten working at a city park district. I never worked for the school, but outside connected companies. No government jobs either.
I want to dispel the myth of “schools as gulags.” I don’t even understand that sentence as it was not my experience. I loved learning in school as a child. It was the bullies/ other kids that made my life miserable (in addition to my abusive home life). I loved learning, and going to school to interact with the teachers and learn new things. Except math...I barely graduated because I cannot do most math beyond the basics. School was a way to stay away from a trauma filled home life.
Interesting how everyone discounts all the other working adults in their young lives during school years, and focus only on the schools and teachers. There are so many more people that make up the life of young children. I mentioned many, but the focus always comes back to schools and teachers.
Mary Anne, I think it just is because of the content of this thread. This was a school setting. If there was an article about the cops handcuffing a child at home, then the focus would be on the parents, besides the police.