The discourses and practices of neoliberalism, including government policies for education and training, public debates regarding standards and changed funding regimes, have been at work on and in schools in capitalist societies since at least the 1980s.
The fight-or-flight response (also called the acute stress response ) was first described by Walter Bradford Cannon. His theory states that animals react to threats with a general discharge of the sympathetic nervous system, priming the animal for fighting or fleeing.
Blood is sent to muscles, away from organs, blood pressure rises as vessels tighten, digestion slows, and immune responses weaken as the body prepares for action. This feeling of stress, often referred to as the fight-or-flight response, is directed by the sympathetic nervous system.