Five-year-olds assault teachers, survey finds

By James Tweed, Nursery World, 26 September 2001

Teachers have been head-butted, kicked and assaulted by children in reception and nursery classes in primary schools in England and Wales, a survey carried out for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has found....

Teachers have been head-butted, kicked and assaulted by children in reception and nursery classes in primary schools in England and Wales, a survey carried out for the National Union of Teachers (NUT) has found. A report, Unacceptable Pupil Behaviour, by Dr Sean Neill of Warwick University, analysed a survey of more than 2,500 primary and secondary teachers in 13 local education authorities in England and Wales....

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