“A top
teaching union says cases of teachers facing online abuse and threats
have trebled in a year. Shockingly, the NASUWT [National Association
of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers] says that abuse from both
pupils and parents is to be blamed. Nearly half (48%) of teachers who
have been abused via social media say the abuse has been by pupils,
while 40% said they came from parents. A further 12% said abuse came
from a combination of the two. Some teachers have had photographs
taken of them by pupils without their consent, who then posted them
online writing derogatory messages underneath. The union also heard
that one heavily pregnant teacher was told by a pupil they hoped she
would 'get cancer'. There were also cases of teachers receiving
sexually explicit messages by pupils.”
“Around
60% of the 1,500 teachers questioned in the survey conducted by
NASUWT said they faced some form of abuse by either pupils or
parents. This is a staggering comparison to last year’s survey,
where only 21% of teachers claimed to have faced abuse.”
“The
shocking extent of the abuse suffered by British teachers comes days
after research conducted by another British union, the Association of
Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) found that one in five teachers have
experienced false claims made against them, varying in seriousness.
Many teachers in the United Kingdom who face false claims or abuse by
pupils have talked about leaving the profession all together. They
feel they can no longer adequately teach the pupils in a secure
environment or discipline those who misbehave without fear of a
backlash. One of the teachers surveyed as part of the study said 'the
increasing occurrence of allegations is one reason why I will be
leaving the profession sooner than I would like to.'”
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