This is nothing new. I have clear memories of my own life back to when I was two years old. And teachers did similar things in my classrooms when I was in K-7 in the 1960′s. I’ve seen teachers throw screaming tantrums, throwing things at students, rewarding their favorites and scapegoating the children they disliked, assigning roles and picking their class favorite to physically bully the others into passive obedience, being quite cruel to the black children new to the schools due to forced integration. Contempt, sarcasm and hostility were common. You would be astonished at how frequent these behaviors are if you had a video camera watching every classroom. On the other hand it’s probably good training for surviving High School and holding a job.
