Today’s Western Leader is carrying a story about Northern Irishman Roy Lilley, principal of Bruce McLaren Intermediate who was attacked by a hammer weilding youth whilst he was at work on Waitangi Day. Mr Lilley confronted the aggressive youth whom he found ransacking the school office but managed to talk him down, despite the youth attempting to hit…
It’s been a bad week for school violence in New Zealand. First there was the stabbing of teacher Steve Hose at Te Puke High School on Monday , followed shortly after by the assault of two teachers at nearby Tauranga Girl’s College. Now Hamilton Girl’s High School has been placed in lockdown and police called…
Two more teachers have been assaulted in Tauranga since the stabbing of Steve Hose at Te Puke High School on Monday. (see Bullying to blame for teacher stabbing and related posts) Sunlive is reporting that two teachers at Tauranga Girl’s College were assaulted by a female pupil within a 24 hour period. The first assault was…
The family of a 13 year old youth, who stabbed his teacher multiple times with a kitchen knife on 10 May, say that the boy had suffered in a school that had a “culture of bullying” – Te Puke High School. This comes as no surprise since most of us know that “Kiwis are worst…
Following yesterday’s stabbing of Steve Hose, a 53 year old maths teacher at Te Puke High School, the Secondary Principals Association says that teachers need to have more power to protect themselves against violence in New Zealand’s classrooms. It’s a far, far cry from the safe, low-crime image that the country tries to portray abroad.…
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