Threats against teachers - Time for a dose of tough love

Even in a world where violence seems more and more routine, even in a world where the most disrespectful and threatening behaviour is occasionally tolerated as the lesser of two evils the threat of violence faced by a teacher and reported at yesterday’s TUI conference in Wexford is utterly unacceptable.

Dublin branch member Audrey Cepada told the meeting that a student who threatened a pregnant teacher that he would “kick the baby out of her” was not suspended until three weeks after the event.