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Horrid little brats

A teaching union in Britain has compiled a list of the 39 worst-behaved schoolchildren in Britain, the children whose behaviour is so horrid that many teachers are refusing to have aught to do with them. Some of the things these latter-day Marmalade Atkinses have been getting up to include attempting to sell replica guns in schools and physically assaulting teachers.
At a school in Wales, which faced "serious problems of violence and disruption", a pupil threw a book at a teacher's head, then verbally abused her while jabbing her in the ribs. In a separate incident, another pupil attacked a pregnant teacher, forced his way back into a science laboratory, overturned furniture and set off the gas lines. The list contains further information about pupils who vandalised school property, made threats and physically attacked teachers. In other cases pupils made malicious allegations against teachers.

The union claims that violence in schools has been increasing in recent years.

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Posted by: Stephen Thu Feb 27 11:15:35 2003

They don't have Apprehended Violence Orders in the UK?

At one school I worked at one child was rumored to have 'left' because, after kicking a teacher in the stomach, she simply walked down to the police station and pressed charges.