Battered-Teacher Syndrome

It is often unrealistic to expect teachers, administrators, and the school system to live up to demands being placed on them by policymakers and the public. Almost everyone in the system is expected to be miracle workers on a daily basis. This results in burnout, depression, apathy, and disillusionment.

In reality, while a teacher can make a big difference in how much a group of students can learn, he/she will never be able to compensate for some of the challenges that many of his or her students will unfortunately enter the classroom with.

Under pressure to get the best test scores while dealing with children who are not willing to abide by rules and create a ruckus in class, many teachers have to sometime pretend as if dealing with violent children is a part of the job as the school authorities put immense pressure on them to deal with it by themselves and not make matters worse by calling in parents even though some situations do need stricter policies as the ramifications pf the child’s future could end up being so much worse.

This leads to many teacher not being able to cope with their job and they usually end up mentally distressed. They sometimes put the blame on themselves and think a child is a certain way because they didn’t teach them properly.

All of this pressure leads to battered-teacher syndrome.