VIOLENCE IN SOME SCHOOLS, or involving students, has escalated to the level where some liken a day at school to working in a “war zone”.
Just three weeks have passed since the second term started and four major incidents have been recorded, with at least two of them requiring police involvement.
And with the hospitalisation of a 15-year-old boy in an after-school incident last Friday and an injury to a deputy principal in a separate act of violence involving students from a northern school, the two teachers’ unions are advising members to keep their guard up.
The union heads said their members had a serious dilemma before them as teachers who have a duty of care to their charges.
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