ASTI seeks national plan to improve classroom discipline

The Association of Secondary Teachers is demanding measures to improve discipline among secondary school pupils.

The association said the issue was the number one priority among its members ahead of their annual conference in Cork this week.

Speaking ahead of the conference, ASTI president Susie Hall said the union wanted the Government to devise a national plan to improve discipline.

"What we want would be a national policy on student behaviour where all of the partners involved in education - the students, the parents, the teacher unions, the principals, the boards of management and the Department of Education and Science - are all obliged to buy into a national plan," she said.