10 Tips for Dealing with a Teacher-Bully

Bullying has been front and center in the public arena for some time now. In recent years, schools have promoted a zero tolerance for schoolyard bullying. Guidelines and resources are more readily available to cope with the workplace bully, as well as for cyber bullying that happens on the computer superhighway. But what if your child's teacher is the bully? At a National Bullying Convention held in 2005, it was found that 2% of children are bullied by a teacher in their lifetime. Teachers who are bullies have the same characteristics of other bullies. They are sadistic and petty, gaining self-esteem through the humiliation of others. In the school environment, a teacher-bully will shame a child in front of classmates, often using their position of authority in abusive ways. The teacher-bully may make an example of a child, sending him out of the room or to the corner. Maybe an extra assignment or denying your child recess or the bathroom becomes the vehicle for bullying.I had a teacher who was a bully. I was in the 10th grade and she made my life miserable. She was my Spanish teacher, and all year long she picked on me, calling on me to answer impossible questions, throwing me out of the class for making too much noise writing with my pencil and even accusing me of cheating on the Regents exam. Decades later, I still have nightmares from those classes - which tells me that I was truly brutalized from her constant shaming and bullying. Luckily, I had ...
Source: Dr. Deborah Serani - Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Tags: anxiety mental health trauma Source Type: blogs