'It's absolutely awful': Students at Canberra high school return to home learning after violence on campus

Parents at a Canberra school deemed dangerous due to violent incidents and teacher shortages were not told about a damning prohibition notice issued by the workplace safety regulator when a number of students were sent home last Friday.

In the letter, banning some students from returning to school "unless for the purposes of a pre-arranged school excursion", the workplace safety regulator said that while its inspectors were on campus, they witnessed a school fire alarm activate and students ignoring teacher requests, wandering in and out and classrooms.

The surveyor also said he spoke to a teacher who had been assaulted by a student the previous week, which resulted in a dislocated shoulder, several broken teeth, welts to the teacher's lower arm and bruising to their back. "The staff shortages at the school, combined with occupational violence teachers and staff were being subjected to, made the current operating model of having all year 7 to 10 student cohorts at the school untenable and it presented an imminent risk to health and safety of those teachers, staff members and students."Parents found out about extent of school violence through media

"On one hand it's like 'oh, well I don't want to send him back', but on the other hand it's like 'no, he likes the school, the teachers are great'. We've had nothing but good experiences with his teachers. They're very supportive, happy to chat about concerns and issues, and work with us," she said."It's shattering, absolutely shattering. It's totally unacceptable," she said.

"We don't understand how things could have got to this point, especially in light of the fact that this was raised by our members and raised by the union in a formal, industrial dispute less than a year ago," he said.

Thats almost hard to believe. Imagine if Australia still had guns widely available

Makes me wonder if this is the only school with the same problems. Probably the tip of the iceberg. Discipline in schools has gone out the window. What have the kids to be afraid of, there seems to be no repercussions to misbehaving & violent kids.

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