To complain about screaming teachers

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Since DD went to secondary school she has been complaining about teachers "screaming."

According to her, when a child gets in trouble they are screamed at.

At first I ignored this but it's really starting to unsettle DD.

WIBU to ask to speak to someone about it?

OP, I think you are focusing on the wrong thing about the school.

The issue is not a female teacher speaking extremely loudly in an assembly about behaviour.

(I'm hoping that you have re-thought the comment about coats - a 'loudhailing' voice designed to carry over a very large area and group of students in order to remind them of a rule is not 'screaming'. On playground duty i would use a similar voice to address a couple of hundred students scattered over the entire playground with some reasonable expectation of them all hearing the message.)

The issue is student behaviour, which is clearly poor. Videoing an assembly and it being posted on Facebook, and whatever led to the senior teacher having to come into the assembly to deliver that message are both unacceptable.

I think a discussion along the lines of 'my DD is worried by the behaviour of other students and how that can lead to them being addressed by senior teachers as a group' is justifiable - as long as you know that she behaves very well. Going in saying 'all teachers scream all day, and my DD doesn't like it' isn't going to help.

When I was at school I'd say about a quarter of the teachers used to scream their way through lessons. Someone would say something or laugh, and then we'd get 15 minutes of screaming about not interrupting the class (during which time we had to stop work)

A quarter? That sounds unrealistic. If students interrupt my lessons with low level disruption I will escalate sanctions, and occasionally raise my voice at the particular offender once outside the room. So would pretty much every other teacher I know- it is a rare one that would waste 15 mins of their lesson 'screaming'

And 'wanker' or 'cow'. Really?! Love to see you try and teach

There were two teachers at my high school who regularly screamed. One was a bit crazy and in poor health and really shouldn't have been there.

The other was a really nice guy. He was a great teacher, but would get so upset if kids were really naughty and would absolutely lose it for a time, it was such a shock at first because he was so lovely.

There was also a pe teacher who threw a basketball in a girl's face for not listening, really hurt her.

This was considered to be a pretty decent school too.

Take DC to see a doctor. Some of the moments she has suggested people are "always screaming" sound like they could be symptoms of something else going on.

Just a thought - does your DD have difficulties with noises in general - e.g. complaining about projectors buzzing, high pitched noises from electronics etc etc? Has she complained in the past about noisy classrooms in primary being stressful for her?

The only thought i had was that sensory issues - an unusual level of noise sensitivity, along with e.g. finding some clothes unbearably 'scratchy', and a range of other potential indicators, can sometimes be linked to autism. Does she have some interests which she is very intense, almost obsessive about? Girls can mask high functioning autism autism extremely well, so if this is part of an overall picture it might be worth further investigation?

Everything forever said doubled!

To be honest in the worst school I ever taught in, no one shouted , much less screamed,because everyone had given up and given in.

The kids never came in, so classes averaged about 10 students; the teachers were soul destroyed and sat at the front (one of them legendarily brought in his paper and told them to 'get on') This was my teaching practice school in the 90s. It has shut down. Theses schools basically don't exist now.

OP's school sounds like a school with a lot of students, many of them ruling the roost. The school seems to be struggling with asserting authority. Any parent should be supporting efforts to do this, not criticising the methods unless it's a basketball in a face

If EVERY parent said, 'teachers are in charge, just behave' to EVERY child and every child heeded their parents' advice we'd all be happy. One can dream!

OP, your DD is, I guess, the victim of a school where not enough parents are supportive of the efforts of educators.