Alarm at schools: violent acts and suspenders are drastically increasing!

Alarm at schools: violent acts and suspenders are drastically increasing!

In the past few months, the alarming increase of violent acts in schools in Austria has caused concern. A striking example is the case of five former students of the Linz Gymnasium Aloisianum, who will have to answer in court in January for an attack on a classmate. Teachers and educational experts urgently warn of the increasing willingness to violence among students, which is also reflected in the statistics. According to Today. In the current school year alone, 80 young people were excluded from class in just six weeks.

In particular, middle schools are particularly affected, where over half of all incidents are recorded. There were 587 suspenders throughout the previous year - compared to this, there were only three suspenders per class day in the 2019/20 school year. Teachers like Christoph Keil describe the stressful conditions in overcrowded classes and the insufficient financial support. According to experts such as Wilfried Prammer from the University of Education Upper Austria, this could lead to students getting out of hand more and more violently and more violently, especially due to the influence of violence videos on social media, so derStandard.at .

A concrete example of this concern for this concern is the 14-year-old Max, who has already noticed several times by shoplifting and as a ring leader of a school course. His aggressive attitude culminated in an incident in October 2022 when he attacked a classmate and then flew from school. Such extreme cases illustrate that schools often have to use drastic measures such as suspenders, since normal teaching with these students is no longer possible.