article_snippet.sent: Energy drinks like Red Bull are causing children to behave badly, a teaching union has claimed .
article_snippet.sent: Pupils’ excessive consumption of energy drinks is fuelling deteriorating behaviour, Pupils’ excessive consumption of energy drinks has been claimed.
article_snippet.sent: Some children drink ‘excessive’ amounts of Red Bull, Monster and Relentless, causing ‘hyperactivity’ and an ‘inevitable crash’ later, a teaching union said.
article_snippet.sent: Of the 3,500 teachers it surveyed, 13 per cent cited ‘use of caffeine and energy drinks … as a driver of poor pupil behaviour’.
article_snippet.sent: Teachers are growing increasingly concerned that some young people are using the drinks to enable some young people to stay up into the early hours of the morning and then replace some young people lost energy by drinking two or three cans of the drinks on some young people way to school.
article_snippet.sent: ‘Teachers are reporting that this affects concentration in class and hyperactivity is then followed by the inevitable crash later in the school day when the impact of these drinks wear off.
article_snippet.sent: Twenty per cent of those aged 10 to 14 consume too much caffeine and have a ‘limited knowledge of the ingredients in energy drinks and the side effects associated with energy drinks’, the research found.
highlights_snippet.sent: Children drink 'excessive' amounts of energy drinks, teachers' union claim .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Drinks like Red Bull, Monster and Relentless are causing 'hyperactivity'
  NASUWT likened caffeinated refreshments to 'readily available legal highs'
  Of teachers surveyed 13% cited energy drinks as cause of bad behaviour .