Now terrified Scottish teachers demand self -defense lessons in the growing wave of classroom violence

Teachers have demanded self -defense classes amid concerns about the growing wave of violence in the classrooms of Scotland.

The directors of the directors of the schools of Aberdeenshire and Edinburgh were asked to provide additional training to help protect the safety of “terrified” teachers.

SNP ministers have been urged to introduce a harder approach to address abuse, intimidation and violence in Scotland schools following the revelations.

It follows the research of unions that revealed an increase in students’ violence and a strong decrease in classroom behavior.

The spokesman for Scottish conservative education Miles Briggs said: ‘SNP ministers must feel ashamed and ashamed that the epidemic of classroom violence is so bad that the terrified teachers now request self -defense classes.

‘The breakdown of the discipline has been out of control for years, however, the nationalists have made little precious to support the teachers, instead of moving the money to the local authorities and the police.

‘The survey after the survey conducted by the unions has revealed that the teachers are beaten, kicked and spit by the students, of them that are attacked by Yobs wielding hockey sticks and broken glass, with their shattered cars and even being brand pedophiles.

‘For the security and sanity of Scotland teachers, and the vast majority of welcome students, this has to stop. Instead of eliminating the hands and warm words of the Secretary of Education, there must be a zero tolerance to abuse, intimidation and violence in schools so that teachers feel safe, valued and supported.

Teachers in Scotland face growing levels of classroom violence (image raised by models)

SNP Secretary of Education, Jenny Gilruth, is under pressure on the “breakdown of discipline” in the classrooms of Scotland

He asked the 32 Scottish tips how many requests the teachers made to their directors for self -defense classes.

Aberdeenshire Council said that “a main teacher has had a application directly, however, they cannot tell us how many received, since this is not registered.”

The Council of the City of Edinburgh said that “a teacher submitted a request for self -defense classes to his main teacher in our local authority in the last two years.”

Fifteen councils said there were no requests for teachers for self -defense classes.

The other tips had no information about any request, they did not respond or said that it would be too expensive to collect an answer.

Councilman Joan Griffiths, education, children and coordinating families in the Council of the City of Edinburgh, said: ‘We have a zero tolerance approach for abuses against teachers and support staff working in our schools, and any report of these incidents is taken extremely seriously.

‘We offer training to teachers and support personnel who work in our schools when necessary, to ensure that they are equipped to treat any case of violence of students appropriately.

‘In addition to supporting staff when this occurs, we have extensive programs to promote positive behavior and manage concern behaviors in school, so that we can try to reduce the number of incidents. Our approach is to do it well for the children and Edinburgh staff.

The unions demanded an action to address discipline in the classroom, but said they did not support to provide self -defense classes to teachers.

Mike Corbett, a national official of Scotland at the Nasuwt teaching union, said: ‘Our recent survey found that 83 percent of members in Scotland said that the number of students who exhibit physically violent and abusive behaviors have increased in the last 12 months. The violence, abuse and poor behavior of students are widespread in all Scotland schools and incidents seem to be increasingly frequent.

‘Teachers are desperate for the action and leadership of school management, local authorities, Cosla and ministers to help keep them safe and address violence, but self -defense classes are not the way to follow.

‘What is needed as a starting point are behavioral management policies that have been agreed by staff and unions in each school that make it clear that there will be zero tolerance and effective sanctions for students who abuse staff. Crucially, policies must be supported with action to ensure that their principles are constantly followed in each school. ”

Seamus Searson, general secretary of the Association of Secondary Teachers of Scotland, said: “Our General Council for Teachers is to avoid these situations and decline as much as it can, and that would be the training we would ask for.” Our concern is whatever the answer can be considered inappropriate and then they are outside a job and the profession.

Our concern is whatever the answer can be considered inappropriate and then they are outside a job and the profession.

‘If teachers request self -defense classes, there must be an investigation into what is happening in that school. If this is how teachers respond, it is because the action within the school is not appropriate and the teachers feel unprotected.