Verbal Abuse in Public Schools.
By Seth_2009
@Seth_2009 (32)
United States
March 1, 2009 11:45pm CST
I am currently a student at Batesville High School and everyday in my school I see children verbally abused by teachers. I've seen teachers; yell until red in the face, scream, throw things, and even call students worthless. Sometimes constructive criticism or being "tough" on students will work, but I fail to see anything constructive about calling a student worthless and telling them that they're going to flunk out and live a life of poverty. We so "no bullying" signs posted everywhere in our school, saying that bullying is a crime, but it's happening, numerous teachers, bullying students. My Physical Education coach told us one day, "We're going to be healthy in this class" he then looked at an overweight girl and said "I'm going to get you healthy". How do you think an overweight, shy, reclusive teenage girl would take being called unhealthy? Suicide was the 11th leading cause of death for teens in 2001. It was the 8th leading cause of death for males and the 19th for females. The total number of suicide deaths was 30,622. Suicides outnumbered homicides 3 to 2. In the years that I've attended Batesville Schools, never have I ever seen a principal or vice principle take the word, or even consider the word of a student over that of a teachers. Worse, even, is that I have been called and seen other students called liars. What will it take for a principal, vice principal, teacher, or even an adult to trust a student and at least attempt to investigate an accusation made by a student? I've seen and been verbally abused by multiple teachers. I cannot see, with the amount of verbal abuse from school teachers alone without outside abuse, how the youth of tomorrow will be able to survive to adulthood.
3 responses
@rmorefield (941)
• United States
2 Mar 09
That is horrible. Teachers (and parents) are supposed to nurture children...not put them down. My mom is a special-ed teacher at a high school. She is one of the few there who actually cares for the kids. She said that she even goes so far as to eat lunch in her car every day because she doesn't want to sit in the teachers' lounge and listen to how they talk about the kids. I recently pulled my 8-yr-old out of school and am now home-schooling him due to similar reasons. He was being bullied by his teacher. And he's 8 in the 3rd grade!!!! His teacher kept yelling at him and wanted to put him in special-ed. She said that it was because he refused to do his work. I had his doctor and a child psychologist test him. I was right. There is nothing wrong with him except for the fact that he was bored. His little brain is operating at genius level. He is now working on math and reading 2-3 years above what he should be. The only problem is, now that he is being educated, he is missing out on socialization. I am looking into private schools for him, so that he can have friends and an education.
@Seth_2009 (32)
• United States
2 Mar 09
I had the very same problem in my 5th grade year. I went from being in specialized education programs in GT (Gifted and talented) and T.I.P. back to regular classes and now for my second year I've been put into an A-B class. A-B classes give you the same class two days in a row to help you if you have trouble in that class. I think what you've done for your son is great, however I don't think it should ever have to go as far as having to pull your children out of school to give them a proper education. If we pay for our schools funding through our taxes so our children can become educated, why then our some of the children not educated? Simply because they are abused by teachers who don't want to take the time to find out how to help them.
@cajuncakes (106)
• United States
2 Mar 09
I feel sorry for you and it's a shame that you have to deal with teachers like that. How do they expect a kid to respect them if they don't show respect to the kids first? A principal should look at the teachers that are getting complaints and think of it like this....if too many kids are complaining about one teacher than something is wrong with the teacher. Just as if too many students are failing in a class...look at the teacher not the students (at least in most cases). Don't think it is only happening in your area schools. It's happening all over the place and teachers wonder why students are not learning enough and not keeping up with other countries. In my son's school the religion teacher called a girl stupid, the assistant principal told my son that I was going to jail if he was tardy again, the teachers scream and holler at them all the time also. They constantly punish the students over the most ridiculous things. That's why he isn't going there next school year and you can't imagine how happy he is about that. As for your statement, I believe you hit the nail on the head why are kids aren't excelling in school and no amount of longer days or adding more days each school year will change that. They need to change the quality not the quantity of class time. Students should be treated like humans and not like they are beneath the teacher, unfortunately many teachers get the bully attitude and don't realize they do more damage than good when they act that way. If a kid is a problem then deal with them but don't treat all the kids like delinquents when its not called for. Don't worry it'll get better before long you won't be in high school anymore and college is so much different that high school.
