Terrified Scottish teachers who consider going out as children to disturbances make schools “as a war zone”

Terrified teachers say that working in schools is like “working in a war zone” after being threatened by students who hold knives, crow bars and broken glass.

Climbing violence He has caused almost half to consider quitting smoking with eight in 10 threatened with a weapon in the last year.

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Union Nasuwt survey thousands of Teachersincluding almost 500 north of the border for growing concerns about students’ behavior.

The staff said how they had been beaten, they had their hair thrown and bitten – with children throw missiles and even pointing an artificial fire to a victim.

Others had their cars shattered or state “Beast” or “branded”.

It occurs after SNP ministers were criticized last year (2024) for adopting a “relationship -based” discipline policy, and some teachers warn that the approach gently gently was gently counterproductive.

Most children The performance was between 12 and 16 and some were under four years old.

And a teacher in a high school school In Glasgow Southside he says that students feel emboldened to cause problems.

She said: “The colleagues have been shouted and sworn, it is happening every day because there are no consequences for their actions.

“It is rare now that whatever is excluded, suspended or detention because there is a great boost towards inclusion.

“It’s like working in a war zone.”

He found that 90 percent had undergone verbal abuse, with 44 percent suffering physical violence in the last 12 months and 45 percent revealing that they had considered giving up teaching as a result.

Kirkintilloch High School staff in East Dunbartonshire has promised study classes.

Bannerman high school workers in Baillieston, Glasgoworganized traces three years ago security concerns.

Nasuwt general secretary, Dr. Patrick Roach, said: “No teacher should experience being hospitalized, having to take a free time or feel forced to leave his job Due to the level of abuse they have suffered. “

A Scotsman Government The spokesman said: “The education The secretary is concerned with the findings of this survey.

“The Government will provide the first progress update on the behavior action plan in the coming weeks.

“The ministers work With cosla in our continuous joint efforts to raise awareness about the National Action Plan and, more importantly, to ensure that the plan promotes the improvements we all want to see in the schools of Scotland. ”

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