Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in this beautiful world.

Thank you for joining us here on the high wire.

I read an article this week that made me think that we are sending our children to prisons

instead of schools.

I don't know what reports you are getting from the schools that your children are going

to, whether you have an open relationship with your children, talking about what's happening

inside of schools.

But this article was terrifying and I want to go through it a little bit.

It came from the Register Guard talking about Eugene schools.

And this is what the headline said.

Eugene schools face behavioral crisis board told.

And the question is, you know, how bad is it?

What does that headline mean?

Behavioral crisis, like the school itself is having a behavioral crisis.

Listen to some of these quotes from this article.

We're in the midst of a behavioral crisis said, Tad Shannon, Eugene Education Association

Teachers Union President.

We are facing real and present danger.

This is happening at all our schools.

It's systemic.

I don't think that we're going to survive the rest of the school year with the way things

are now.

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