Potential trauma and real world expectations are completely ignored for teachers.

I’m not a teacher. I have just found this subreddit interesting. And concerning. And alarming. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but there seems to be a complete disconnect between the expectations for behaviour in a school versus what we would expect anywhere else. Teachers seem to be expected to just suck it up when they’re exposed to potentially traumatic events. What you were assaulted? Just write it up. Someone threatened to kill themselves or their peers? Write it up. Excuse me- I know they’re kids. I know they’re going to be dealt with differently to adults (although generally never in any legal sense). But the fact that they’re kids doesn’t really change the fact that teachers are being repeatedly being exposed to traumatic events. Your experience is real. And if you feel upset or shook up or unable to cope with much more- you have good reason to. Your feelings are real. The DSM V criteria for PTSD requires people to be exposed to something potentially traumatic. This includes things like thinking your life or body is in danger, threats, seeing other people hurt hearing about others being hurt, etc. The treatment teachers are expected to put up with is not normal and it is potentially traumatising. Please don’t beat yourselves up for not coping with situations that are not normal.