Three in four school principals in Canberra experience violence and abuse, survey finds

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The Australian Principal Occupational Health, Safety and Wellbeing Survey 2022 says rates of violence and intimidation against principals are at their highest level since the survey began in 2011.

abc.net.au/news/three-in-four-act-school-principals-subject-to-violence-survey/102119620Three in four principals in Canberra have been subjected to threats and physical violence — the highest rate in the country — according to a new survey of school leaders.

ACU investigator and former principal Paul Kidson said a third of the violence and abuse came from parents. In the ACT, 73.2 per cent of principals who responded to the survey reported being subjected to physical violence, while 75.6 per cent noted they had been threatened.The survey showed the number of principals looking to quit or retire early tripled in one year.

"[It's a combination of] the stresses that some students have been experiencing, and teachers in trying to manage that.ACT Education Minister Yvette Berry said the high territory results could be because Canberra had "a highly educated community, and perhaps higher expectations on our schools than everywhere else in the country".

"It's about understanding from school principals what we can do to support them best, rather than just making it up on our own and imposing that on them," she said."We have been working very closely with our schools around implementing our Positive Behaviour for Learning framework which is about a whole culture shift within our schools around positive and respectful relationships," she said.

 

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No wonder if they are teaching the gender stuff and other weird things that totally don’t relate to education. How about life skills. Paying bills cleaning cooking gardening 👩‍🌾 maybe 🤔 things be different! Perhaps stop bullying. Treat it as a criminal act ! Assault abuse threats

Then do something First sign of that behaviour Expelled. I got expelled twice in one week for much less. Buy I went on to get on to get advanced diploma in engineering after I got my sh-- together

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More pride flags will fix it. 🙄

That's what happens when you make drugs legal as they are in Canberra.

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