teacher vs teacher

[Plane]

http://msn.foxsports.com/other/story/High-school-football-player-saves-teacher-during-screwdriver-stabbing-122311


This is very unusual isn't it?

I have the impression that teachers treat each other with respect 99% of the time.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I would say that teachers refrain from violent attacks 99.999999999% of the time. I taught  HS, college and university for 40 years and never heard of one teacher ever coming to blows with one another. The most violent behavior I ever heard of was between a coach and a substitute arguing over a parking space at a HS. It was a shouting match that may have lasted two minutes, and ended with the sub moving his car. I was not a witness, I only heard about it in the lunchroom for a couple of days.

[Plane]

  Teachers are by definition well educated, do they therefore fall victim to insanity less?

[Xavier_Onassis]

I know of only one colleague being actually committed to an institution for severe depression. Most mentally ill people are not violent.

[kimba1]

education has no bearing in ones sanity, if anything it makes a harder diagnoses. I know someone whose senile and totally incapable of taking care of herself,but because she was a former nurse she can pass any test to look competant. also people have a habit of giving intelligent people a pass on mental illness and call it eccentric.

[kimba1]

I`m willing to bet money some parents woould love having kids with ocd so the room can stay clean. people today brag they might have ocd.

The tv show monk might of been a bad thing. i still love that show though.

[Plane]

  Is violence an abnormality?
Insanity might not be the right word or the right concept.

What is it and why is it that some settings and some groupings have more violence than others?

[kimba1]

I will not say it`s a absolute rule but certain factors tend to come into play with predictable outcome. lack of food tend to make people steal /kill

lack of work causes stealing

also prolong period of such enviroment will make it a cultural thing so such behavior will continue after such problems get solved.
ex. michael vick was the highest paid player and still needed to make money illegally.

[Plane]

  Do some cultures resist violence better than others?

    Teachers are a subculture , if they are really less prone to violence than their surrounding culture perhaps it is because they have a paycheck and something important to do.

    Perhaps that isn't all.

     Are teachers self selected generous persons?

[Xavier_Onassis]

  Perhaps that isn't all.

     Are teachers self selected generous persons?

I am sure that some are, and that some think they are.

[kimba1]

Including the two stated here, I`ve heard less than five in my life so far.
I believe such incident may still be considered rare

[kimba1]

it`s like school shootings. despite how often it in the news the overall data pute it in the rare occurance catagory.

[BSB]

"lack of food tend to make people steal/kill"

Big time.

Want to make someone violent? Get them REALLY hungry, let them get a whiff of food cooking, than make them wait for a prolonged period, like being at the back of a long chow line, than watch.


BSB