(CNN) 一位教师说她曾两次被学生严重伤害。另一个说她在一天结束时筋疲力尽，以至于没有力气离开她的沙发。
三分之一的人已经在心里计算过，如果发生学校枪击事件，她会和有特殊需要的学生呆在一起，而不是试图逃到安全的地方。
上个月在密歇根州牛津市一所高中发生的致命枪击事件再次提醒人们，美国教育工作者面临着诸多压力，他们仍在大流行中应对教学的巨大挑战。冠状病毒感染的另一次激增——以及即将回归虚拟或混合学习的幽灵——只会增加教师的焦虑。
周五，TikTok 对全国范围内的校园暴力事件发出了一个模糊且病毒式的趋势警告——当局认为这是不可信的——然而，这导致学校大面积停课，执法资源捉襟见肘，并在关键的假期旅行季节到来之前让家庭处于紧张状态。
“我现在正在努力寻找工作中的乐趣，”一位老师告诉 CNN，“因为我束手无策。”
美国有线电视新闻网最近要求学校教师告诉我们他们的工作以及他们如何应对。来自全国各地的 700 多人响应。
许多人说，这是他们有史以来教学最艰难的一年。由于害怕报复，他们要求 CNN 隐瞒他们的姓氏。
Teachers say school shootings and mental health struggles have made this year their hardest yet
(CNN)One schoolteacher says she's been badly injured twice by students. Another says she's so drained at the end of the day she doesn't have the energy to leave her couch.
A third has already made the mental calculation that in the event of a school shooting, she'll stay with her special needs students instead of trying to flee to safety.
The deadly shooting last month at a high school in Oxford, Michigan, is yet another reminder of the many stresses facing America's educators, who are still struggling with the overwhelming challenges of teaching in a pandemic. Another surge in coronavirus infections — and the looming specter of a return to virtual or hybrid learning — is only adding to teachers' anxiety.
A vague and viral TikTok trend warning of nationwide school violence on Friday — which authorities have dismissed as non-credible — has nevertheless prompted widespread school closures, stretched law enforcement resources and put families on edge ahead of a critical holiday travel season.
"I'm trying to find the joy in my job right now," one teacher told CNN, "because I'm hanging by a thread."
CNN recently asked schoolteachers to tell us about their jobs and how they're coping. More than 700 responded, from all corners of the country.
Many said this has been the toughest year for teaching they've ever had. They asked CNN to withhold their last names out of fear of retribution.
