Yelling Teachers

Why is it okay to yell at students, but not at their principal or coworkers? Surely, everything a teacher deals with from adults doesn't make them happy, either. Could it be because another adult would not tolerate such interaction? I find it cowardice and incompetent that these teachers take out their frustrations on children. Parents may excuse it because they know how hard it is to PARENT children without yelling at their own child. Most of us have done that. And, other teachers are empathetic and/or look the other way because they don't want to be held accountable when they make the MISTAKE of doing it, themselves. But, here's the difference. Teaching is a PROFESSION that they CHOSE, get PAID for, and are expected to perform professionally. (Hence the licensure and special on-going education) Children not only behave badly because of bad home lives, but because of the chaos created when 20+ kids are jammed into a packed room all day. It is up to the teachers to figure out how to create a learning environment that works. Parents cannot control that. We are across town doing our own jobs. I know that if I went around yelling at people at my place of employment, I'd be given a pink slip so fast, my head would spin. Not to mention being encouraged to take advantage of an anger management program! And, trust me, somedays it takes all that I can muster to remember that. But, I do. All jobs bring us into contact with stressors. We can choose to figure out how to deal with it, or leave the position for one that better suits us. It is amazing to me that society has begun to condone these out of control role models. I'm talking about that certain teacher, and we all had one, who is the perpetual tyrant. I think a psych profile should be mandatory in order to teach children, since so many teachers find it so commonplace to lose control of their classrooms and vent rage. It's a bit scary. Since when is yelling a way to get a child to behave better? Yelling is just a red flag that someone beside just the "bad" kid is in need of some "special help." Too bad the job pays so poorly and sometimes, especially in smaller communities, the only teachers applying for the jobs are not exactly the cream of the crop. Thank goodness for the superior teachers that can keep it together to help balance out those who cannot.