are teachers allowed to shout at kids as part of their job?

Answer 1

Yes they are allowed to verbally control the children and sometimes that does require the teacher to raise their voice.

The teacher however is not supposed to verbally abuse or bully pupils.

If you ask me, teachers have less and less power these days whilst parents are expecting them to bring more miracles in terms of calming the children down and teaching them to behave properly. Although I don't think physical punishment should be brought back, I do think teachers should be given more leeway in terms of needing to break up fights or to march unruly children into a quiet corner without fear of reprisals as they are in today's world.

What I'm not saying is that punishment should be the mainstay of controlling children. On the contrary I believe positive (reward) and negative reinforcement (taking priveleges away for wrong behaviour) are better but sometimes if a child is endangering themselves or other children the teacher should be able to professionally intervene without fear of reprisal.

At the moment teachers are being expected to contribute more than ever to setting an example to children with more families with both parents in full-time work and more single-parent families. However, they've got the least power to control their pupils that they've ever had.

When I was at school, if the teacher had shouted at you, you wouldn't dare tell your parents as they'd want to know what naughty thing you had done so they could reprimand you too! These days too many parents are ready to shout foul-play when really it's partly their responsibility for bringing up such unruly and disrespectful children in the first place.

It's a tough job - not one I would want the stress of!

Ok so if you want to give me thumbs down for suggesting a common sense approach you go for it - in an ideal world teachers wouldn't have to shout but the distinct lack of respect coming from some children and their parents these days often leaves no other option than to shout to get attention, peace and order in the classroom.

Answer 2

My God. I hope so. I teach young children and some of them are monsters. Whenever a child starts acting like a ninja and tries stabbing another student with scissors I shout like hell hath no fury. The day they take away the teachers right to shout is the day that a lot of kids go home with injuries. Do you want your kids standing on chairs and throwing things at each other or do you want them to sit and get an education? Sometimes I agree that teachers can be short tempered and shout too much, but as a teacher, I can truly say that we all have your kids best interests at heart and want them to become well educated adults and not thugs.

Answer 3

simple answer yes. However, noisy teachers tend to have noisy classes and the more you use this technique the less effective it will be. Also not good if it means you have lost your rag and the students will then just put 10p in the slot everytime and wind the teacher up more and so the problem will escalate. Raising your voice and shouting should only be used sparingly and then students would react accordingly. I'm afraid these days respect must be earned. 'Engage me or enrage me' as the mantra of the day goes.

Answer 4

As a teacher myself to younger kids, someitmes shouting is the only way anyone can hear you! Then you lower your voice once you have attention. You never shout at a child or verbally abuse them. But raising your voice to tell them the room needs to be cleaned, or we are switching activities is allowed. 6 year old get very excited and loud in school!

Answer 5

Teachers do shout and are allowed to do so. Sometimes you have to in order to be heard over the noise of the classroom or to get control of a situation. Verbal abuse is not acceptable or allowable.

Answer 6

lol - Teachers go into the job to educate not shout - it's only when they have to deal with some people's badly mannered children that they have to raise their voices at times to sort out issues. Who wants to shout? That's not the idea at all. Thank God there are still children out there who come from decent homes with decent parents who teach them to respect others and themselves. Those are the children you go to work for each day. Try teaching for just one week - then answer your own question.

Answer 7

I would hope so! As long as they're not being abusive or humiliating then I think they can shout as much as they need to. It's terrible though that most high school children today don't listen as they know the teacher can't do anything physical to punish or make them do what they say. I say bring back the belt!!

Answer 8

Yeap- it seemed to be their only job at my old school.

I went back to visit, it was break time and EVERY SINGLE teacher was standing with a pupil bellowing at them for silly little reasons.

I think SOME teachers need to be reminded why they went into the job and what's really important.

Not that I don't respect some teachers.. Theres some amazing ones and I used to wanna join them.. Also in my experience- new teachers are full of great ideas and fun, effective ways to learn but the system seems to knock it out of them.

Answer 9

No. A teacher may criticise or reprimand a pupil but should not resort to shouting, especially at an individual.Perhaps the only time the teacher should raise their voice is to restore order in a noisy situation when a normal voice could not be heard but then it would be in a general sense to all the pupils and not just one. A good teacher deserving of the respect of his/her pupils should not have the necessity to shout.

Answer 10

In an ideal world, no. It would be considered abusive. But, in the real world it happens everyday and, most likely, can't be helped.

Now, if the teacher is saying derogatory things to the students...that is abuse. But, think about it....could YOU spend a whole day in a room of noisy kids and not shout? It would be chaotic!

I don't like my daughter being in a classroom with a teacher who shouts. But, I do realize that sometimes she does have to raise her voice to get everyone settled down.