November 14, 2007

Teachers overlook bullying

According to some sources children with learning and physical disabilities are being bullied and this problem is not being taken seriously by the teaching staff of the schools that they attend.

The governments Children’s Commissioner Sir Al Aynsley-Green stated that people are very slow to recognise this growing problem. From which we can only assume that he means people in schools, i.e. Teachers.

This follows a report from MENCAP who offer an account of a seventeen year old, who had to put up with, taunts, beatings and other actions such as having stones and bottles thrown at him. Yet when he told the teacher the reply was that he had special needs and should get on with it, as he would be bullied all of his life!

The report was compiled on the accounts of 500 children aged between eight and nineteen; the shocking result is that eight out of ten of those asked had experienced bullying at school.

Source [BBC News]