NewstalkZB had a news item in tonight’s 5pm bulletin on increasing violence in NZ middle schools. Ross Tyson, the principal of Cambridge Middle School was quoted as saying, “Much of the violence is born from an attitude that children can say and do whatever they like without regard for others.” I fear that he is correct. Very scary.
His comment follows an incident, also reported in stuff.co.nz, in which two teachers were injured when they tried to protect a teenage girl being attacked by another girl in the playground.