Most of the "horror stories" people are relating on this thread appear to be from "the good old days" when we supposedly still had prayer & discipline in schools, and people still got a good education.
According to my friend who went to school in an Asian country, teachers there have no compunctions about humiliating students who act out or don't perform as well as they could.
I'm not advocating cruelty, but this seems to me like a very thinly-veiled touchy-feely liberal educrat article.
Almost daily, I holler at my kids. Most of my kids know me that if I *stop* screaming and hollering, there is a problem. Why do I do this? Passion mostly, and it gets their attention.
Berate them? I have. When they don’t do as well as they should on a test, or they fail to give me what I know they are capable of, yes. Oh, and I have the test scores to back up what I do in class.:) One thing that all of my kids will tell you is they would love to have me again.
This 45%, I am sure takes into account the vicious private Church run schools with the famous nuns who would beat children for anything...there is a point in a public school where even tenure will not protect a teacher, but not so in a private school, especially a Catholic school. Oh, and my mother attended a private Catholic school, and saw said abuse firsthand, way more extreme than anything in a public school.
Again, as I have said before, if I had unlimited time to scour the internet looking for articles to bash someone’s profession, I am quite certain I could do that, but I have better things to do with my time. I have a classroom full of students who need some TLC.