Verbal Abuse of Teachers against Students in Iraqi Secondary Schools

Abstract

Verbal abuse is a very influencing category that can influence the degree of motivation and the class participation of the student. A designed questionnaire has been designed and distributed to thirty high school students, sixteen males and fourteen females in several high schools in Al Najaf. The results show that the degrees of the verbal abuse in the selected schools are very little and the teachers are very aware of the rules and regulations of the high schools teaching. It is not nil but very rare and it has been noticed that mine degree of abuse causes a degradation in the motivation of the students. The data analyses show that 70 % of the boy students prove that their teachers never behave badly with them. 18% of them stated that their teachers sometimes behave badly. The discussion shows that the girl students have experienced the bad behavior of their teachers more than the boys. 59 % of them never experience that type of misbehavior, and 26% of the selected girl students have sometimes experienced that bad behavior.