If half of the cops, and half of the teachers, switch jobs tomorrow. Lock the cops

[jtuck004]

guns in the safe, teachers go unarmed.

So you have people responsible for development and those responsible for arresting development try the other role.

I know the cops would run screaming after 1 day, 'cause you can't just shoot anything that annoys you. (Sigh. I kid. Sort of.) Think the teachers would go back?

[_Blue_]

1. I've known several cops who were teachers and several who became teachers after retirement:

There seems to be some crossover between the two fields.

[PDJane]

2. I wouldn't want the police attitude in the classroom.

The cross over seems to come because a number of teachers are pretty authoritarian too.

[marble falls]

3. Me neither. Not at all. never, ever.

[Downwinder]

4. I had an ex-military DI in primary school.

He had no control of the classroom plus he could only teach the military way. Wasted year.

[True Blue Door]

5. A teacher would do well as a cop

because they have experience dealing with bullies.

But a cop probably wouldn't do well as a teacher, because the kids also have experience dealing with bullies.