Parents tell helpline of bullying by teachers
The support and information service run by the National Parents Council-Primary (NPC-P) received 56 calls about alleged intimidating treatment of children by school staff in the last three months of 2003. In the same period, 106 of the 552 calls answered were about children bullying each other.
In the case of teacher bullying, only a small number of reports involved any kind of physical action against children. But parents reported children being picked on psychologically, being called names like “thick” or “stupid” and being constantly undermined.
