article_snippet.sent: Teachers are suffering broken arms and severed fingers at the hands of violent pupils as young as six.
article_snippet.sent: Last year, staff at eight schools refused to teach pupils who threw chairs, brought fireworks in and threatened to slit other children’s throats.
article_snippet.sent: Teachers are suffering broken arms and severed fingers at the hands of violent pupils.
article_snippet.sent: This year alone I have been personally involved in some refusal to teach, where at one school a six-year-old boy broke the arm of a deputy head teacher.
article_snippet.sent: It was difficult to go in and speak to four members of staff who actually cried and broke down and were in fear of four members of staff who actually cried and broke down and were in fear of their personal safety within the classroom personal safety within the classroom.
article_snippet.sent: As a union, we accept that most schools and colleges, remain relatively safe and secure, but we are seeing the increase of numbers of incidents within school: a minority of pupils who continue to challenge authority and behave disruptively, using threatening behaviour, abusive language and sometimes physical violence towards our members.
article_snippet.sent: In a scenario recently when I looked at a school’s behavioural system there were 1,200 behavioural issues that had been reported internally but only 12 had been reported to the authority.
article_snippet.sent: According to the authority, that school was deemed as a good, well behaved school but we know that’s not the case.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Dan McCarthy, NASUWT’s national executive member for the Eastern region, said a female teacher at a local primary school had been ‘kicked repeatedly by a six-year-old’.
article_snippet.sent: Later, the woman ‘discovered a female teacher at a local primary school was pregnant and the child was now punching a female teacher at a local primary school in a six-year-old’.
article_snippet.sent: a female teacher at a local primary school went on sick leave as a result.
article_snippet.sent: ‘I was working in a department where a student stabbed another student in one of the classrooms,’ a student said.
article_snippet.sent: Is there a facility in a school to lock a school down if necessary?’ Neil Lawrence, a teacher from Nottingham, told the conference that This NQT injured Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) back after a pupil pulled a chair from beneath Newly Qualified Teacher (NQT) as a prank.
article_snippet.sent: Staff at eight schools refused to teach pupils who threw chairs, brought fireworks in and threatened to slit other children
article_snippet.sent: This means that ‘a pupil verbally abusing a main scale teacher will have a minor sanction’.
article_snippet.sent: Verbal abuse to a head of department or even the headteacher may result in a more serious sanction or even exclusion.
highlights_snippet.sent: Teachers are sworn at, kicked and punched while one had her arm broken .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Last year staff at eight schools refused to teach badly behaved pupils .