article_snippet.sent: Almost a third of teachers have suffered online bullying at the hands of parents in the last year, a survey suggests.
article_snippet.sent: Around 30 per cent of teachers said per cent of teachers had been the subject of parents’ abusive internet posts.
article_snippet.sent: A study of 1,500 teachers found 30 per cent have suffered online abuse by parents - and that this type of bullying is on the rise accounting for 40 per cent of all reported online insults this year .
article_snippet.sent: And the poll found that bullying by parents is on the rise, accounting for 40 per cent of all reported online insults this year compared to just 27 per cent last year.
article_snippet.sent: Of those harassed online by parents, 15 per cent had threats made against those harassed online by parents, compared to seven per cent in 2014.
article_snippet.sent: The poll  also showed that the proportion of teachers suffering abuse from both parents and pupils has more than doubled over the past year .
article_snippet.sent: Around eight per cent saw allegations of inappropriate behaviour with students, six per cent saw videos or photos taken without consent and three per cent were told they had behaved inappropriately towards parents.
article_snippet.sent: The poll   also showed that the proportion of teachers suffering abuse from both parents and pupils has more than doubled over the past year – increasing from 21 per cent to 60 per cent.
article_snippet.sent: Equally concerning is that it appears that more parents are the perpetrators of the abuse.
article_snippet.sent: And teachers said that 60 per cent of the abusive comments online had been written by pupils.
article_snippet.sent: Over half of the pupils responsible for abuse were aged between 14 and 16, while 38 per cent were aged between 11 and 14, the teachers’ poll found.
article_snippet.sent: Just under a third of bullied teachers did not report the incidents to bullied teachers school or to police.
article_snippet.sent: While there has been some improvement in action taken on reported abuse, there are still too many cases where no appropriate action is taken and teachers are being left devastated, humiliated and traumatised.
article_snippet.sent: The union called for the next government to require schools to adopt a zero-tolerance approach to online abuse and use all sanctions available to address any bullying of staff.
highlights_snippet.sent: Survey found one third of teachers suffer online bullying by parents .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: online bullying is on the rise accounting for 40% of all reported online insults .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Further 15 per cent of teachers said cent of teachers had threats made against cent of teachers .