Indiscipline, school violence...

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In the United States of America, between 1996 and 2000, 599,000 violent crimes against teachers at school were reported.

Teachers also face threats of violence and intimidation. In the 1999-2000 school year, 9 percent of all teachers were threatened with injury by a student from their school, and 4 percent were physically attacked by a student.

In the UK,teachers are warning that pupils' violent behaviour is causing staff to leave the profession.

A third of teachers in the UK have faced physical aggression from pupils and more than half have known of colleagues who had left teaching because of poor pupil behaviour.


What is your opinion about this topic? Why is there lack of discipline in the classroom? Why do students disrespect teachers so often? What are the reasons for pupil misbehaviour?

BACK TO SCHOOL!

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This is the moment some students fear and some others long for! Friends get together again and some teachers welcome you and wish you good luck and good work for the new year! And then you feel that school is the place where you belong, because learning is a wonderful process, because being with friends is the meaning of life!... Are you happy to be back?... I hope so and I also hope that you open your mind to new things and new experiences! This is the process of growing up!... WELCOME BACK!

Slaughter in a US university...

April 17, 2007 — Cho Seung-Hui, 23, the Virginia Tech student who police believe is responsible for killing 33 people at the university he attended.

Everyone is wondering why this keeps happening in the USA. Why is it so easy to buy weapons in that country? How is it possible that tragedies like this one are not enough to make the government enforce a law against weapons? Who is earning money with the business?...

Another problem that worries me is bullying. Some teenagers live a life of fear and despair during their school years and some of them carry in their memory the episodes of violence and humiliation all through their life. There are some who suffer from depression while still at school or afterwards, because the image of themselves is affected and some are not able to overcome the trauma. Some others become killers... Teachers and parents must pay attention to the signs...

(Click on the title to read more about this in the ABC News link.)

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