1. Why do some teachers toards a fight to get in the middle and break it up?
2. Why do some of the smallest teachers especially small female teachers attempt to physically break up a fight?
3. If you were a teacher and as you were leaving out the parking lot after school leaving for the day and saw students going at it fighting would you stop your car or something? What would you do?
2007-09-01 23:28:05 · 10 answers · asked by sam j 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Sam,
Teachers got into teaching (most) because they are compassionate people who want to help kids. That's why they jump in (sometimes physically) when students are fighting. While their only legal responsibility is to call for help, most teachers I have been around will gladly step in to help kids.
As for the small female teachers, some of them have the biggest hearts.
I was a teacher for 17 years and now a high school principal. I can answer your 3rd point, yes, I would stop because I care about kids. I don't want them to get hurt. Kids do dumb things sometimes and it's the adults job to do what they can to keep them safe until they get on their own. When you get back to school after the long weekend.... go thank you teachers for caring.
ps. Amanda, a teacher isn't horrible if they choose not to break up a fight. A good friend of mine got his ribs broke breaking up a fight. It's ok if they choose only to call for help. You have a good heart.
2007-09-01 23:44:36 · answer #1 · answered by specialedprincipal 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I am a small female teacher and if I saw two of my students going at it in a fight I would first make sure someone was calling security and then I would try and break up the fight. I would want to protect the students and the only way to do that is to stop the fight. If I was leaving the parking lot, I would stop my car and break up the fight. Any teacher that wouldn't is a horrible teacher.
2007-09-02 11:55:06 · answer #2 · answered by Amanda M 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
1. Because students should not be fighting and the school can be legally responsible for injuries that occur if fights escalate.
2. I do not know. I am a small female teacher. I told my administrator during the interview process that I would not physically break up a fight if it involved students my size or larger (elementary school).
3. If students were smaller than me I would stop and break it up. If they were larger than me I would probably try to break it up verbally, if I could not I would go get someone who could.
2007-09-02 12:27:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't understand the answers that you are looking for but can offer a little bit of reasoning as to why teachers try to break up fights after school. In most states here in the US, the school is legally responsible for their students until they reach their own front doors (that is why some districts consider it fighting on school property even if you are standing at the bus stop), in other instances there is a specified time limit that, once passed, has released them from legal responsibility, assuming of course that the student is no longer on school property at that time. In any case, the teacher is an agent of the school district and is watching out for their student's safety..seems to me that's what responsible adults would do anyway.
2007-09-02 06:39:39 · answer #4 · answered by dances with cats 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Most likely, if there is a fight happening the kids are probably in junior or senior high school. The teacher probably knows and teaches both students. This usually means he/she cares about each of them and doesn't want either to get hurt. The other stuff people said about being responsible is correct as well.
The teachers aren't thinking about size or getting hurt themselves when breaking up a fight. They are trying to minimalize the injuries to each of the students.
I would stop my car and attempt to stop the fight.
I would like to respond the the person who said it's not the teachers responsibility and it is the responsibility of the school officer. Not every school has security officers in place. In my district, you would need to call security and wait for them to arrive. This is plenty of time for the students to do severe damage to each other before any security is ever on premises. Please remember that what happens at your school isn't the way it is every where. Each district and each school is different.
2007-09-02 10:45:39 · answer #5 · answered by REM 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Have you ever been to the hospital. It is not fun. I have heard of teachers getting hurt before. Never let anybody hit you. Find another way to walk to your vehichle. Park somewhere else. I would just inform a principal about the fight.
2007-09-02 12:02:08 · answer #6 · answered by jarvis 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Students fighting is none of a teacher's business.
It is the business of the School Security Officer.
Or the School Resources Officer from the Police Department.
Or officers of the Police Department.
2007-09-02 06:34:39 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
umm question 2
coz it makes them feel big
2007-09-02 06:38:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 5⤋
Are you ******* kidding us?
2007-09-02 06:33:00 · answer #9 · answered by gadfly 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
welcome to High School
2007-09-02 06:32:25 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋