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Teachers Who Bully
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/teachers-who-bully
Most bullying is focused on the youths. However, teachers can bully and it many ways it is worse because people expect teachers not to bully.
Why Do Teachers Bully?
Teachers are human, and it's unfair to expect them never to utter a hurtful word.
But teachers do bully for various reasons, experts tell WebMD. A student may remind them of someone they dislike. Or, in a surprising reversal of the "teacher's pet" syndrome, insecure teachers may bully bright students out of envy.
Other teachers suffer from personal problems -- job burnout, marital woes, or severe behavior problems with their own children -- and they take out their frustrations in class.
Furthermore, in some troubled schools, students bully teachers -- and teachers dish it back to avoid appearing weak. "Teachers are often physically scared of students," Twemlow says.
No surprise that home problems play a role in bullying like in youth bullying. This time is adult problems.
One interesting finding: Teachers who bully were often bullied themselves in childhood. As Twemlow's study co-researcher, Peter Fonagy, PhD, noted in a news release: "If your early experiences lead you to expect that people will not reason, but respond to force, then you are at risk of recreating this situation in your classroom."
I suspect some people become teachers because of some sense of "unfinished business" pertaining to school and want to revisit as an authority figure they so wanted.
Teachers Who Bully Students: A Hidden Trauma
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6911735_Teachers_Who_Bully_Students_A_Hidden_Trauma
http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/teachers-who-bully
Most bullying is focused on the youths. However, teachers can bully and it many ways it is worse because people expect teachers not to bully.
Why Do Teachers Bully?
Teachers are human, and it's unfair to expect them never to utter a hurtful word.
But teachers do bully for various reasons, experts tell WebMD. A student may remind them of someone they dislike. Or, in a surprising reversal of the "teacher's pet" syndrome, insecure teachers may bully bright students out of envy.
Other teachers suffer from personal problems -- job burnout, marital woes, or severe behavior problems with their own children -- and they take out their frustrations in class.
Furthermore, in some troubled schools, students bully teachers -- and teachers dish it back to avoid appearing weak. "Teachers are often physically scared of students," Twemlow says.
No surprise that home problems play a role in bullying like in youth bullying. This time is adult problems.
One interesting finding: Teachers who bully were often bullied themselves in childhood. As Twemlow's study co-researcher, Peter Fonagy, PhD, noted in a news release: "If your early experiences lead you to expect that people will not reason, but respond to force, then you are at risk of recreating this situation in your classroom."
I suspect some people become teachers because of some sense of "unfinished business" pertaining to school and want to revisit as an authority figure they so wanted.
Teachers Who Bully Students: A Hidden Trauma
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/6911735_Teachers_Who_Bully_Students_A_Hidden_Trauma
