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PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS


PRIMARY AND SECONDARY NEWS


T h e W eath er Station for Sch ools p roj ect h op es to j oin th ou sand s of sch ools in a glob al scinece ex p eriment


of teachers had videos or photos taken of them


34%


without consent and posted online by pupils


15% of teachers have had


threats made against them by a parent...


...compared to 7% in 2014 Teachers abused on social media A


A survey by the NASUWT has highlighted a huge rise in the number of teachers being targeted for abuse via social


media in the last year. Nearly 1,500 teachers responded to the union’s


third annual survey of teachers and of these 60% reported having had adverse comments posted about them on social media sites by pupils and parents, compared to 21% in 2014. Particularly concerning is that the majority


of the signifi cant increase appears to be as a result of an increase in the number of parents abusing teachers online; 40% of teachers had experienced this in the last year, compared to 27% in 2014.


"There are still too many cases where no appropriate action is taken and teachers are being left devastated, humiliated and traumatised"


Abusive, sexist, racist, homophobic and


highly off ensive language is common, accompanied by remarks about teachers’ appearance, competence or sexuality. Teachers also had false allegations and malicious slurs targeted at them. There has been a rise in the number of


teachers receiving insulting comments from pupils (62% compared to 47% in 2014) and parents (64% compared to 57% in 2014). Over a third (34%) of teachers had videos


or photos taken of them without consent and posted online by pupils, compared to 26% in 2014, and 15% had threats made against them by a parent, compared to 7% in 2014. The overwhelming majority of comments


were posted by secondary pupils, mainly on Facebook, although there have also been rises in pupils using newer sites such as Instagram and Snapchat to abuse teachers. Chris Keates, General Secretary of the


NASUWT, said: “The NASUWT has campaigned tirelessly for many years to highlight the need to protect teachers from the abuse of social media by pupils and parents. It is deeply worrying to see that the abuse of teachers has risen by such a huge margin this year. “Many teachers tell us that they suspect


they are being abused online but dare not look, for fear they could never walk into their school again to have to face their abusers. “While there has been some improvement


in action taken on reported abuse, there are still too many cases where no appropriate action is taken and teachers are being leſt devastated, humiliated and traumatised. “An incoming government must take this


issue seriously and require schools not only to have a zero-tolerance policy, but to use all the sanctions available to them to address the abuse of staff .”


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