I will start with a warning: a number of years ago, a family member was a teacher in a New York "fortress" primary school. Watching that family member's experience (I have taught at the university and post-graduate level and in my experience, that does not involve comparable stress exposure), I concluded that some classrooms expose teachers to extraordinarily and unreasonably high levels of stress.
In a recent blog, I described the findings by a Nobel award-winning scientist, that telomere length is a critical factor in cellular health (particularly among women) and that stress is a common factor believed to shorten telomere length. Is someone willing to study telomere length among teachers in high stress level classrooms, demonstrate whether the telomeres are statistically significantly shortened (compared to a control group), and if they are, propose a fair compensation system for teachers' classroom battlefield physical damage? Does anyone really want to know the answer to those questions and then have to deal with the consequences?
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