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Teacher warns of 'time bomb' primary schools: ''10-year-old was looking for scissors to stab me''
Julie Smith, 37, says that over her 15-year career youngsters became increasingly abusive and threatening to staff
Julie smith says her life was ruined
All around Britain this week excited young children are going back to primary school or starting for the very first time.
The lucky ones will be washed and dressed with a nourishing breakfast inside them.
Their parents will have made sure they had a good night’s sleep so they are ready to learn.
But some are not so lucky.
One former primary school teacher today describes how she saw children coming into school dirty, hungry and exhausted after staying up after midnight watching movies and playing violent video games.
Julie Smith, 37, says that over her 15-year career youngsters became increasingly abusive and threatening to staff.
And it cost Julie her job after a rampaging 10-year-old who had threatened to stab her was locked inside a room to calm down.
Anne Maguire who stabbed to death at Corpus Christi Catholic College
Killed: Boy aged 15 stabbed Ann Maguire (Image: PA)
She believes many primary schools are at breaking point and before long someone will be seriously injured or even killed.
“It’s a time-bomb,” she said. “People need to be aware of what is happening before there is another tragedy.
“When I read about Ann Maguire being stabbed to death in Leeds I was heartbroken but it is just as likely that something bad could happen in a primary school.
“Some of the children are up all night watching 18-certificate movies and playing on these awful computer games which are so violent. It becomes normal.
“These children are not old enough to process reality and a game so they are bringing that behaviour into real-life.”
Julie, who was special educational needs coordinator at Revoe Primary School in Blackpool, says she and her colleagues had to deal nearly every day with children swearing, shouting, punching, kicking and biting.
But she never felt in real danger until the 10-year-old boy went wild.
“I did have a really good relationship with him at first but his behaviour went downhill,” she says.
“He would be abusive to me in the corridor. On this day I had to give him some bad news and he just went mad. He started rampaging around the school, flinging doors open, swearing, going into classes where teaching was going on.
“I caught up with him in the corridor and he came at me with a pencil, then threw it at me and said he was going to get a knife.”
Julie says she went to get help and other teachers confronted the boy.
“They had found him on the corridor looking for some scissors. He said he was going to stab me so they took him away and put him in a room.
"He had physically attacked them both. He had clumps of their hair and they were very badly bruised. He would have hurt somebody.”
The boy was locked into a “time-out” room to calm down but when his parents later complained of false imprisonment Julie and five other staff members, including headteacher Cath Woodall, were suspended.