What if teachers used performance enhancing drugs?

Good question and it got me thinking. There's no law saying a teacher can't stay pumped up on caffeine, wake up pills, Red Bull, "memory" herbs, etc while teaching my child. After seeing the way some teachers behave around children and deal with problems, I don't know if I would be against a PE drug.

(long answer) That list of things teachers need to be able to do (tip of the iceberg, by the way) simply points out why they are often under-appreciated. They do all that .. and more.

But I wanted to answer this because I wanted to go on the serious side with it.

I don't think teachers want or need performance enhancing drugs. No matter if they are the not so good kind who are just skating by or the great kind who are giving their all to bring out the best from each student.

I think teachers do their BEST .. give their best performance .. when given the best environment to teach in. Bury them with overcrowded classrooms or building that are falling apart .. or bury them in requirements that make no sense or mandates to pass students so funding comes through .. and even the best struggle to "teach" with a capital T.

Never mind the drugs. Let's try for policies, curriculum, infrastructure .. that make sense.

Let's give them half a chance to "be" teachers. Then hold them accountable.

Let's then give students half a chance to "be" students. Then hold them accountable.

But when things are so "not" ok .. then it's difficult for both students and teachers to strive and try to reach their potentials. All spiral. And we wonder if an external miracle might do the trick.

I know this question likely wasn't meant to be taken literally. And like any social issue, it's complex. What "of" drugs in schools .. of other sorts, for example?

Anyway .. first reaction from just one of many angles was .. no, performance drugs for teachers isn't what's needed. Let's water & reform the educational gardens, believe in them and honor them, THEN see how they do.

They could perhaps take Memory+ capsules. Other than that there could be nothing except patient study and practice could improve their performance. And the memory+ capsules too are dubious.
Even physical training teachers - The PTs, as we call them here in India - would not benefit from anabolic steroids as they are not going to perform but teach only.
Same for the coaches too.
If there is any other performance enhancing drugs to improve teaching skills - they my be the best kept secrets in the world.