Almost half of the female teachers have had physical abuse or violence from students in the Scottish schools in the past year, has shown new research.
SNP -Ministers are encouraged to take harder action on the rising tide of violence in the classroom, because a survey discovered that female teachers were beaten, kicked, pushed or spit.
The research by the Investion -Education Union showed that female employees were more often confronted with physical attacks than men.
In the survey about behavior in schools, 49 percent of female teachers said that they had had physical abuse or violence from students in the last 12 months compared to 36 percent of men.
Dr. Patrick Roach, Secretary of Investing, said: 'Although not a teacher should go to work and experience verbally or physical abuse of students, this information indicates that teachers in female run a higher risk of making violence.
“Until such a behavior is treated with the seriousness and that it deserves and is seen as part of the spectrum of abuse that our schools teases, women who work in schools continue to endanger their safety.”
The study among 476 teachers, including 326 women, showed that 27 percent of female teachers had hit or beaten in the last 12 months, while 20 percent had been kicked, 37 percent had been pushed or stabbed and 12 percent had been spoiled.
Education secretary Jenny Gilruth has finally indicated a more difficult approach that can ultimately be followed
During the weekend, the e -mail revealed the number of students who are excluded for attacks on teachers since the SNP came to power.
Last week, teaching secretary Jenny Gilruth indicated that a more difficult approach could finally be followed because she said she did not want them to prevent teachers from using exclusion, and that figures can rise.
Mike Corbett, National Official in Scotland, said: “In addition to taking action to ensure that each school has the policy of behavioral management and has determined what place effective sanctions on pupils, local authorities and the Scottish government have to make schools a central shelf of strategies to outsource gender-based violence.”
A whistleblower from a whistleblowers also told the Herald on Sunday that they have 'violence based on primary schools' daily in primary schools.
Spokesperson Willie Rennie, spokesperson for the Scottish liberal -democratic education, said, “Teachers deserve to know that this government has their backs.”
A spokesperson for the Scottish government said, “Violence or abuse at our schools is completely unacceptable.”
