Attack ‘ended my teaching career’: The toll of rising pupil violence

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1wz9vd1g25o

Posted by OGSyedIsEverywhere

8 Comments

  1. >This young person had been exceptionally violent in the weeks leading up to my injury, they had broken somebody’s wrist, torn someone’s rotator cuff,” Michelle said.

    Why was that student still in the classroom, two serious injuries and the school still saw fit to keep them in regular classes?

  2. Male teachers (who I think are now at record lows) is probably some of the answer, but we can’t say that

  3. > She said: “About 90% of our cases come from SEND provision schools or it’s a SEND child within the mainstream school.

    This is ths crux of the problem. This won’t be solved until parents actually digest this info and demand their children are kept away SEND children. Its a drastic action, but it solves 90% of the issue for most (80%) children.

    There is now enough of them to be entirely within SEND schools that can more effectively cater for them, and more importantly allow calmer environments for others.

  4. Maybe it’s time to address the issue of bad parenting – especially when 25% of kids turn up to school not toilet trained is shocking – not exactly a schools issue

  5. Fluffy_Carry_4345 on

    As a training teacher, I guess I need to hot the gym again to be ready to deal with what sounds like 28 days later.

  6. A teacher in my girlfriends school walked out one day and never came back. A student had snuck up behind her chair and tied a scarf around her neck and tied it to the chair so she couldn’t move. It’s getting really out of hand. She managed to reach the radio but SLT were busy and not responding so she was just stuck, I’d be surprised if she ever went back to teaching after that

  7. The police have a much better lobby than teachers.

    The police hate dealing with adolescents and push to keep kids in schools. Politicians like keeping kids there because it’s cheaper.

    In some cases, the kids grow out of the aggression and everyone says how well the school did. Some kids do not and they become adult thugs. Schools have no effective penalties and cannot rely on parental support. When the management will not support you, you’re on your own in the classroom.

  8. MontanaMinuteman on

    This is what happens when you don’t jail these kids. Put a few in for 5 years and the rest will behave