How many teachers have been attacked / threatened by students?

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I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few days in light of the sentencing for the murder of Mrs Maguire. I've namechanged for obvious reasons but am a regular - Reasties xmas threads mainly

In my small school this year so far

• teacher's arm jammed in a door. Student made to write a note of apology

-male staff member had to deflect a punch from student. Staff member interviewed by manager for use of force. No comeback on student -student threatened to nut a teacher. Approached teacher looking like he was going to do it. Student suspended for 2 days then back into class -teachers told to fuck off / called cunts etc regularly

No it does sound strange, I agree. I wasalready sliding into illness by then and I didn't trust my memory unless I recorded it straight away. No email then either. I had this idea I wanted it in someone ele's possession in case something happened to me. Colleague was my school union rep by the way as well as my closest friend on the staff.

Of course, that makes perfect sense. I really empathise with you and have seen first hand how situations like yours arise. I hope you are so much happier out of teaching. :)

Thanks rollon

I certainly am: I feel privileged to have had the opportunity to rebuild my life. I hope things work out for you too.

Link to July BBC article.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-28584095
The comments by Nick Gibb at the end make my blood boil. How are things improving?

Also from 3Nov, related to Ann Maguire and but goes on to talk about violence generally, quoting the same violence statistics.

As you can see, the Sun in Sunday made a FOI request for this information back in December. maybe they would be interested in this thread?

I have also been assaulted and was blamed. Can't give more details in case it outs me.

link to second article

That article is infuriating. Exclusions have fallen because schools are penalised financially and it is viewed negatively by Ofsted. Incidents have fallen because teachers are actively discouraged from reporting them and because teachers who report assaults are perceived as struggling and heads use this to threaten the teachers with capability procedures and dismissal.

It's much like GP surgeries being required to give everyone appointments the same day, and so bringing in a rule that if you want an appointment you have to phone that morning and then again the next day if you don't get one. I mean duh.

There are loads of things like this in politics/state provision - ridiculous targets/requirements that are met by simply suppressing info or cooking the books.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-30067669

Nobody blames prison staff for not being interesting enough?!