What many teachers observe as violent behavior is often really just playful aggression.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I feel playful aggression is important for children because they have to deal with all kinds of anger and aggression in their lives.
We recognize that violence is a learned behavior. One of the best classrooms for learning violence is in the home.
It's hard to say whether the general incidence of school violence of all types is increasing or not.
The kid who can play imaginatively doesn't tend to be violent. It's the same with adults.
Violent behavior exists in one's psychological makeup much deeper than the level that receives information from television or movies.
Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression.
There is a subconscious way of taking violence as a way of expression, as a normality, and it has a lot of effects in the youth in the way they absorb education and what they hope to get out of life.
Conceptually, I always took issue with bullies and those who took advantage of others, whether it was a teacher's cruelty to a student, or a student who picked fights with others.
I want to get violence - I want schools to start from K through 12 to just every day have teachers understand that they don't want to talk about anything that is violent, and they want to explain to the children how bad violence is and how behavior - violent behavior, is something that they really should not practice and think about.
Yeah, all drama teachers are very effusive, very demonstrative, very emotionally open, very big, and gesticulate a lot, and are very physical.