Stop The Yelling!

When I was at school I remember being yelled at a lot and seeing other kids being yelled at. The other day I went to visit my sisters at school and watched a teacher yell at a little kid for doing something wrong. I couldn't help feeling sorry for the kid as he walked away nearly in tears.

Kids go to school to learn about things like Science, English and Maths but when did being polite fade out? Teachers constantly yell at children who are not their own and expect the children to respect them for it.

When a child goes to school and gets yelled at, a number of things can happen. The child can lose respect for the teacher, become embarrassed and ashamed of themselves, develop a low self esteem and can feel like they don't belong. Because the teachers who are meant to be their role models are doing this, they may feel that the teacher doesn't like them and therefore feel it is not worth participating in that particular subject.


Teachers yelling at their students happens often. So often in fact, that many people have become desensitized to it. So I have got a couple of scenarios for you.


1) A child in year seven is talking when the teacher is speaking and the teacher tells the student to stop twice then becomes annoyed and yells at the student and tells the student to get out of class. The student misses the rest of the lesson which is 30 minutes long. The student gets angry at the teacher because he was embarrassed in front of the whole class and doesn't want to go back to it. The child also doesn't like the teacher because of this and loses respect for the teacher.


2) A child in year seven is talking while the teacher is speaking and the teacher asks him to be quiet but the child doesn't, so the teacher asks the child nicely to wait outside for her. In a couple of minutes, the teachers goes outside and speaks to the child explaining how important it is to listen when she is speaking, then the child and the teacher go back inside. The child forms a respect because he felt he was being treated with respect and as an equal.

Which way do you think is the right way?

Look at it another way. If an adult yells at a child that is not their own, and doesn't know the child, the child's parents would be outraged and the police may even be called because what has occurred is verbal abuse.

How is this different from a teacher yelling at a student?

In many schools now they have put into play an anti-bullying policy, but when a teacher is yelling at a student why is that not seen as bullying? The teacher belittles the child and the child is not allowed to speak back and have their say. That is not a conversation or disagreement, that is the teacher overpowering the child.

"Hurt people, hurt people" Bill Crosby once said . Meaning that people that are bullied or feel that they have been bullied, often bully others perpetuating a cycle of violence. Stop The Yelling!