Out-of-control students subject teachers to misogynistic attacks

Management in schools are failing to protect teachers from intimidation, inappropriate sexualised behaviour, and misogynistic attacks from problem students, unions have claimed.

Concerns for teacher welfare were raised yesterday at the Teachers’ Union of Ireland (TUI) congress in Co Wexford, where one delegate described a case in which a student told a pregnant teacher he would “kick the baby out of her”.

TUI general secretary John MacGabhann said violence is not the norm in classrooms, but is a significant issue in some schools.