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1. How common are violence and other forms of abuse against teachers?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

In 2010, soon after we began to look at this issue, we administered a\u00a0nationwide survey<\/a>\u00a0to assess the extent of violence perpetrated against the\u00a03.6 million teachers<\/a>\u00a0in U.S. public schools. The roughly 3,000 teachers from 48 states who participated were comparable to the population of teachers in the United States. About 80% said they had personally experienced some form of violence or abuse within the current or past year.<\/p>\n

But, according to the\u00a0Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<\/a>, in 2014, only 9% of U.S. teachers recounted being threatened with injury, and 5% said they were physically attacked in the current or prior year. We believe that the actual numbers could be much higher, as our research indicates, because teachers may fear that reporting these incidents could jeopardize their jobs.<\/p>\n

The forms of violence and abuse teachers described varied greatly in our survey. For example, nearly 75% said they had been\u00a0harassed at least once<\/a>\u00a0during the previous year, more than half experienced damage to their cars or other property and almost half experienced some type of physical attack. One teacher told us that \u201cmy keys have been stolen, my tires slashed, and my car was keyed,\u201d while another described having \u201cbeen hit, spit at, bitten, kicked, pushed, had things thrown at me, had someone try to stab me in my eye with a pencil.\u201d Another said \u201cI was threatened by a student at a school after I reported to the security officer that he was beating up another student. The officer did nothing and when the student saw me again he called me a rat and threatened me.\u201d<\/p>\n

2. Who attacks teachers?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Although students committed most of these violent acts, parents and even other school employees were responsible for some of these incidents. Among the teachers in our sample who had been victimized at least once, 37% said the parents of students were responsible and 21% relayed incidents by their own colleagues. Most of those incidents involved some type of harassment rather than physical attacks.<\/p>\n

3. Where does this happen?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

We asked the teachers who told us about being victimized to think about all of the times they experienced either violence or abuse at school and to describe the most upsetting incident. We found that\u00a0high school teachers<\/a>\u00a0were more likely to say they were threatened than elementary school teachers. Indeed,\u00a0threats expressed verbally<\/a>\u00a0are more frequent for teachers of older students compared with younger students. However,\u00a0elementary school teachers<\/a>\u00a0were more likely to be subjected to physical abuse or even be assaulted than teachers who work at middle and high schools.<\/p>\n

4. How do teachers respond?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Although you might expect that teachers would tell school administrators about all these incidents,\u00a01 out of 5<\/a>\u00a0of the teachers who told us about an incident said they never did that. What\u2019s more, while the vast majority of teachers (87%) discussed the incident with another teacher, only 12% of the teachers spoke to a counselor or a mental health professional about the incident.<\/p>\n

There are many reasons why teachers might not want to talk about these incidents. Some may feel embarrassed or worry about losing their jobs. Others may fear that they won\u2019t be taken seriously. In one case, a teacher told us about seeing a student walking around in an unauthorized area. The school expelled the student, who had already been suspended several times for other serious infractions. At the end of the day, the student tracked down the teacher outside of a classroom and threatened the teacher, saying \u201cI know where you live and I know your people. You better watch out.\u201d The teacher then reported this incident to school administrators, but she was simply \u201claughed off by the administration.\u201d<\/p>\n

The administrators told the teacher that they felt the problem had been appropriately addressed, since they had expelled the student, and she would no longer be attending the school.<\/p>\n

5. What\u2019s next for your research?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Our task force is now studying how the way schools are managed and their\u00a0overall cultures<\/a>\u00a0might actually be creating the conditions that lead to teacher assaults. We are also examining the relationship between safety issues in general and violence against educators. For example, we are looking into the cumulative effects of\u00a0school shootings<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0lockdown drills<\/a>\u00a0and the impact of\u00a0arming teachers<\/a>. Although many teachers never personally experience violence, these incidents can be life-changing for those who do.<\/p>\n

Author Bios:<\/strong> Eric M. Anderman is a Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research Evaluation and Measurement at The Ohio State University, Dorothy Espelage is a Professor of Psychology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Linda A. Reddy is a Professor of Psychology & Assistant to the Dean for Research and Innovations at Rutgers University, Ron Avi Astor is the Crump Endowed Chair, Professor of Social Welfare and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles and Susan McMahon is a Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology; Associate Dean for Research at DePaul University<\/em><\/p>\n

Rena Subotnik, director of the American Psychological Association\u2019s Center for Psychology in the Schools and Education, contributed to this article.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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