It seems student violence is a major issue in Britain. Reading that 900 students are suspended each day for physical and verbal violence towards teachers and classmates, indicates to me schools in Britain are at crisis point. It seems that whatever they are doing clearly isn’t working:
Bad behaviour is blighting Britain’s schools with almost 900 children suspended every day for attacking or verbally abusing their teachers and classmates, new figures show.
Every school day 13 pupils are permanently expelled for attacks and abuse and 878 are suspended in England’s primary and secondary schools.
The figures, from the Department for Education, include physical assaults, racist abuse and threatening behaviour.
In total, they show school children were suspended on 166,900 occasions for assault or abuse.
And pupils were expelled on 2,460 occasions.
And the level of violence in primary schools was also high with children aged four and under suspended 1,210 times and expelled 20 times.
Across all of England’s primary, secondary and special schools, boys were around four times more likely to be expelled than girls, with boys accounting for 78 per cent of expulsions
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