&gt;While adults are ultimately responsible for everything that&#x27;s wrong with education, on a day to day basis, you&#x27;re put in very delicate and stressful situations with children, who are impulsive, emotional, and myopic. It&#x27;s really, really hard to deal with adolescents at scale.<p>I&#x27;m not sure that this can truly be qualified. The statement that their job entails a stressful situation, does not (inherently) excuse them from inviting it.
This is the same argument used by or on behalf of police officers who abuse their post(i.e. <i>He had a hell of a day, witnessed two murders, so it&#x27;s understandable that he just shot a minor suspect for fleeing</i>). One might forget that they don&#x27;t need to be a police officer or school teacher, that they made a free and conscious decision to be one and feel no shame for failing at it.<p>The problem is that individual teachers do not, on their own, have as much ability to make the situation a good one; it takes an effort from the entire system(from other teachers to headteachers to parents to politicians) to change the day-to-day reality, and so it seems as though the situation is &quot;out of our hands&quot;.