More than four out of five (81 percent) teachers feel that the number of students who exhibit violent and abusive behaviors has increased, according to a survey by the Vasuwt Teaching Union.
It comes when the delegates at the night conference in Liverpool today (April 18) approved a motion that declared that the impact of violent disturbances last summer “continues to affect school and university communities” and puts their security “at risk.”
The motion suggested that the “extreme indiscipline of the pupil” reports, including incidents involving knives and other weapons, were increasing.
Patrick Roach, general secretary of: Teaching Union, said teachers say that mobile phones are “lethal weapons” that students are using at school to abuse the ethers and interrupt the lessons.
In a speech to the annual union conference in Liverpool, Mr. Roach asked for a plan to address the “national emergency.”
LA: The survey, or more than 5,800 members in the United Kingdom in January, suggested two out of five (40 percent) teachers have experienced fuses or violence of students in the last 12 months.
A fifth of respondents said they had experienced or beaten by students in the last year, while 38 percent said they had pushed or invested bone.
Around one in six said that the students had kicked their legs, while nine percent said they had splashes in their legs, according to the night survey.
A teacher who responded to the survey said: “I have two children a fire hydrants as a weapon. One in my head, another at my foot.”
Another said: “This morning they told me:” Go die, I hope you die. ”
Patrick Roach, general secretary of: “The student’s behavior has long been a problem for teachers, but the recent year saw an unprecedented increase in the levels of violence and abuse in the classroom.
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“According to our latest data, we estimate so many axis 30,000 violent incidents against teachers involving students with a weapon in the last 12 months.
“Many teachers have to think about how they can survive in the classroom before they can begin to focus on their teaching and learning students.
“We are asking for the establishment of a national forum between school security agencies that is directed and chaired by ministers.
“We are also asking the government to invest in services with copial funds to identify and address the fundamental causes of violence and aggression of students.”
