28 Mar 2024

ERO report shows NZ deteriorating with behaviour in schools

From Checkpoint, 4:06 pm on 28 March 2024

It's a daily roll call of disruption and violence in class rooms around Aotearoa.

21% of teachers deal with students physically harming each other every day; that includes extreme violence.

32% encounter students damaging or taking property daily.

That's just some of the lowlights from an Education Review Office report that's surveyed educators about behaviour in the classroom.

It concludes Aotearoa is worse than other countries and deteriorating further.

Albany Senior High School principal Claire Amos speaks to Lisa Owen.