Recession 'affecting school discipline' [IrishTimes]
- Published: 08 April 2010
Disruptive behaviour in classrooms has worsened as a result of the recession and education cutbacks, the Teacher' Union of Ireland has warned.
The impact of pay cuts and job losses on some families has led to increasingly difficult behaviour among students, say the union. Schools are losing structures they have put in place to tackle indiscipline because of the embargo on filling posts of responsibility.
In a Behaviour and Attitudes survey carried out on behalf of the TUI last week, 81 per cent of teachers said that dealing with discipline had increased their workload over the last five years.
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