Just thinking. Could it be all the “sickology” teachers have to take as part of their teacher education or is it just not enough screening before they get teaching jobs or is it that they project themselves into the teenage mentality which develops into these situations.
Its probably a little of both. Majoring in education is probably as low on the motivation scale as one can get, except maybe for journalism. So it probably attracts slackers and those with arrested development. There is also the fact that teaching is an automatic membership into the government club of unions, tenure and automatic raises with little chance of termination, even for egregious behavior.