The fatal stabbing of Ann Maguire in her Leeds classroom has shocked and horrified us all. As her family, colleagues and students are left to grieve, we as a sector are left with many questions.
How could this have happened? Why did a student have a knife in a classroom? How many weapons are there in schools? Do secondary schools need to introduce US-style security scanners? Is there a problem in primary schools? Are teachers adequately trained to deal with such threats? Ultimately, what we are really asking is: are schools safe?
Following the incident in Leeds, much research, many surveys and various experts have been presented in the media to explain the threat to teaching staff, Teacher Support Network included. We appeared on a number of news programmes talking about our research on the issue, which revealed that just under half (48 per cent) of teachers who responded to our 2010 behaviour survey had been assaulted or threatened with assault.
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