There was another study done.  Don't you wish we could be paid to do some of these studies?  This one is about IED; Intermittent Explosive Disorder.  Apparantly one in ten males have this disorder and one in twenty females.  If a person loses his/her temper 5 times a week or more, they have it.

They don't explain if it is learned behavior,  genetic or some mutation.  However, I can tell you which students in my classroom have it.  I can also tell you which teachers have it.  I have a sneaking feeling that it is learned behavior from home.  People who don't know how to deal with their emotions will have it.  Do they need counseling?  Medicine?  Therapy?  Locked up?  I bet if we check out the prisons, most of them have it.

Do we now have another excuse for anger?  Why do they do studies and not have solutions to the problem?  I guess so more studies can be done.  What do we do for this?  I hope that it isn't another excuse to let naughty kids get away with displays of anger.  (Oh, poor thing, he has IED so we can't do anything because he slugged Bobby in the nose and then kicked him while he was down.)  I am kind of tired of "understanding" bad behavior. 

I agree that kids need to be taught how to handle themselves in anger situations.  But, I don't agree that they should be allowed to get away with it because they have been identified with an emotional disorder.  Something else needs to be done.  The people who rule the schools should come up with a proper solution.  That's what they get the big bucks for.