Stressed teacher=stressed pupil. Abused teacher = abused pupil?

I was watching the news last night and I saw a video of an irate teacher throwing curses at a group of boy scouts.

I am a teacher and every teacher are aware that this act violates provisions on the department's child protection policy as well as laws against child abuse.

It is only proper that the teacher be sanctioned in proportion to the act that she committed. It is inexcusable.

But before judging and condemning the teacher and her person remember that this is just an episode and it does not show the whole personality or character of the teacher:

Any parents who have sired children know how difficult it is to keep them in order and many (not all) may have said negative words to their children out of frustration.

In the teacher's case, multiply that frustration and stress by ten fold or more and the stress is multiplied exponentially with that number.

That is just the work related stress. There are also the personal challenges that compounds an already enervating work related pressures.

Now in the poor lady's case she had to shepherd a troop of boy scouts and keep them with in sight. 

It is not all about keeping them in order, it must also be stressed that the teacher is liable for the safety of her wards.

I also heard that the teacher was pregnant. This might be a mitigating circumstance but I could only ask why she was allowed to take charge of the boy scouts. Isn't the school head violating any provisions on women's protection especially pregnant ones when the teacher was given that assignment knowing her condition?

I have been teaching for almost a decade and one, if not, the most stressful task of the teacher is to keep discipline in class. Most if not all teachers, at one point in their teaching profession, have lost it. Teachers are not superhuman who can not feel frustrations, pressure and stress.

We don't want  apathetic, numbed teachers who go in and out of the classroom teaching lecturing but emotionally and socially detached from their learner's, but this is the only alternative I could see.

Now how does the department deal with this problem of teachers losing it?

The academic way: 

low salary=financial management seminar

Stressful and frustrating working conditions, long hours, lost weekend, extra paper works etc. = Stress management seminars (can help). 

And the punitive ways: suspensions and termination.

And to think there are already work related suicides.

And I say....the four letter word.

Note: Changes are already being put in place but as to their implementation, something to look forward to. Our school head has already been doing her best to adhere to the instructions of the RD about teachers ' welfare starting with the cutting of hours a teacher stay in the school and a seminar on stress management is on schedule.