Just when teachers thought it was safe to enjoy their inflated and undeserved (parents opinion) 6 week summer holiday a report on primary schools shows some shocking statistics.
Children as young as five kicked out of class as almost 100 primary pupils are suspended EVERY DAY for assaults on teachers and classmates
Thousands are sent home for verbal abuse or threatening behaviour
120 pupils expelled for assaulting classmates and 200 for assaulting staff
Department of Education figures reveal statistics for 2011/12 school year.
Nearly 50 primary school pupils are being sent home every day for attacking teachers and other staff, disturbing figures reveal.
The number has soared more than 10 per cent in one year, heightening concerns about a breakdown in discipline. When attacks on fellow pupils are included, the figure rises to 100 exclusions a day.
Children aged five to 11 were already more likely to assault adults than secondary school pupils, but the gulf has continued to widen.
Graham Stuart, the Tory chairman of the Commons’ education select committee, said the figures were ‘shocking’. He added: ‘It suggests a serious deterioration in discipline and behaviour in primary schools which needs to be fully investigated.
‘It raises questions not only about how schools are run but also about what’s going on in the community from which they come.’
Philip Davies, the Tory MP for Shipley, added: ‘When you see how some parents treat teachers then there’s little wonder why children follow suit. Perhaps we need to do more to make parents responsible for the actions of their children.’
There were 6,970 exclusions from state-funded primary schools in 2006/07, of which 260 were permanent. By 2010/11, this has gone up to 7,830 fixed-period exclusions and 200 permanent. This was the first year that the number of primary school assaults against staff overtook those in state secondaries, where 6,060 pupils were excluded.
In addition there are just over 3,000 attacks on adults at specials schools each year.
I disagree with the concept that schools need to be investigated to see how they are run. If this was coming from one school or one area then yes but we are talking about a national problem.
It shows that in most instances the children are showing the same lack of respect in many cases that comes from the parents. Make parents responsible for the actions of the child? I tell you what! For every child that is excluded, I want that parent to come and do a weeks service as a classroom teacher in the school and start to get an appreciation of just exactly what we have to go through.
Parents wouldn't be so quick to criticise us for our efforts.
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