http://www.thestar.com/News/article/264668

All the more reason to challenge Teacher's who treat LD and ADHD kids badly or allow Peer Bullying.

Meh, I bet that the same results would have been found if the study were tweaked like this: instead of doing verbal abuse the teachers would hold restraint and simply note who they would like to direct verbal abuse to at this moment in time. I bet the people whose names are on that list would have the same earlier sexual activity.

I wonder how they ethically measured and monitored 'verbal abuse" in this study.

How would it pass an ethics committee? I mean, it is unethical to let this stuff go on.

I'd rather see it couched as a study into "kids who feel humilated in class" (and use subjective ratings).

I don't think it has to to be _overt verbal abuse_ or _by a teacher_, to exert the same effects.

Peers pick up on who is "not doing well in school" (academically; behaviourally; socially), and can secondarily torment a kid. (And Teacher's can be complicit in letting such torment manifest interpersonally, by allowing such a 'culture of "learning"' exist.)

We've all had Teachers who say things like "you're just not getting it".

Is that verbal abuse? Or just a frustrated observation?

I think it is overt verbal abuse when the teacher says things infront of the class that would be better stated in private over a parent/teacher/student meeting. Being that I recently left school, the stated status on how a person is doing in school, academicly, socially, or otherwise still happens, and causes alot of problems; which can even carry on into college believe it or not.

Here is the original research

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/117/5/1585

Most questions answered within

kilt

But you will struggle to find the bit that says teachers verbal abuse is linked to early sexual activity.

You will note that the bits in the newspaper article referring to the sexual activity are in quotes. I suspect that the reporter phoned up the researcher and got a quote that extended "delinquency" into "sexual activity" which then gave the reporter an good tag for the article. Without that the article would not have made it into the paper.

The paper linked to above does not in any way mean that a teachers verbal abuse is linked to early sexual activity. It is saying that a teachers behaviour at an early stage in a childs development is a PREDICTOR of later delinquency and could therefore be used to target early interevention resources effectively.

kilt

It must have some truth because I was constantly referred to as a "troublemaker" and "nothing but trouble" due to my hyperactivity as a kid from teachers and I was "friendly" at 13.