Teachers at risk from escalating violence Published: 7:05AM Friday September 04, 2009 Source: NZPA Violence at some schools is already out of control and teachers are being put at risk, says the secondary teachers' union. The Post Primary Teachers Association wants to see changes after two incidents this week in which groups of pupils stormed schools with weapons and started fights. "There's a lot of tension out there in communities and that manifests itself in schools," PPTA president Kate Gainsford told the Dominion Post. "If it is getting to the stage where teachers are continually confronting this, then we would have to take advice from police about how to deal with that." The union also wants to the government to "step up and help". A group of eight Auckland secondary students armed with a softball bat beat a 14-year-old old at Auckland's Lynfield College on Monday. In Porirua, north of Wellington, on Thursday, about 20 boys from Mana College went to Bishop Viard College believed to be armed with a baseball bat and allegedly threatened students on the rugby field. Lynfield College suspended one student, who led the group, mostly from nearby Mt Roskill Grammar School, in the attack. Another five students from Mt Roskill were suspended. The school's board of trustees will meet the boys next week and decide whether they would be excluded or allowed back to school under certain conditions, says principal Greg Watson. Some students have been referred to police youth ...
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