So now politicians can feel the same way teachers feel

[RB TexLa]

A friend of mine who is a teacher told me once, "I fear for my life every day I'm with those animals."

Do they not understand this is part of life? People get murdered.

[el_bryanto]

1. So is your point that Teachers and Politicians should grow up?

Or is it that we should take steps to make our society more safe?

Bryant

[RB TexLa]

2. We can take steps to do that but people are still going to kill one another.

Right not the members of congress seem to have an attitude of "we are such special human beings, we must have extra-extra special protection from the world."

[malaise]

5. Excellent point

particularly when they, their media hacks and and their lobbyists have created this environment.

[LiberalEsto]

3. Teachers should get hazard pay.

A friend of mine who recently retired from teaching was lucky to escape serious brain injury a few years ago when one of her students clobbered her on the head. She was hospitalized, but it could have been much worse.

[seabeyond]

4. well, i suggest this person gets out of profession. appalling comment. nt

[blondeatlast]

7. +1. I left because I physically wasn't up to the task. Anyone with that attitude

should not be in front of a classroom.

[seabeyond]

12. thanks blonde. at it is not a bad thiing either. it doesnt do anything for anyone

but set all up for problems. life is too short

[LeftishBrit]

6. Getting murdered is part of life?

One should just accept murder as the norm?

I have known many teachers, some of them in tough secondary schools. It's not an easy job, and aggressive kids do bully other pupils and sometimes manage to bully the teacher. But *murdering* a teacher is very rare and the rare cases reverberate as horror stories for generations. Philip Lawrence, a north London headteacher, was tragically murdered by a gangster in 1995, when trying to defend a pupil from a gang attack, and this is still painfully remembered. It is not seen as 'part of life'.

The murder of politicians is also very rare here. Recently an MP was stabbed but recovered. That was the first such case in a very long time.

Murder - of anyone- should never be treated as just 'part of life'.

[Statistical]

9. Murdering of politicians is extremely rare.

Death is part of life. Murder is extremely rare but it will never be completely eliminated.

Far more people are killed by eating too many calories than are killed by terrorist attacks or political assassination. Where is the fear and outrage over insane portion sizes and saturated fat?

[blondeatlast]

8. Oh, geez, now I get it. Pass an ice-cold carbonated beverage, please--

and here's the salt. :popcorn:

[stray cat]

10. Maybe teachers and politicians should live in the inner city and see what kids face

Most of us are luckier and have more benefits than we choose to admit instead of admitting others have it even harder. We have a culture obsessednwith their own victimhood

[Nye Bevan]

11. Your friend thinks of his or her students as "animals"?

He or she is in the wrong profession.

[lonestarnot]

13. WTF?