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Jacquie McTaggart
Columnist EducationNews.org
The fight-or-flight response, first described by Walter Cannon in 1915, says animals react to stress with a discharge of the sympathetic nervous symptom that primes the animal to fight or flee. This response is now recognized as the first stage of a general adaptation syndrome that regulates stress responses in humans.

Jacquie McTaggart
I rarely read anything written by Joe Turtel because his irrational, negative comments about public education infuriate me. I taught in public schools for forty-two years, have written a book and countless articles on education, and am a frequent featured speaker at International Reading Association conferences.