Every fourth teacher in Montenegrin schools has suffered or is suffering some form of violent behavior - from students, school management, colleagues, and most often from parents, in order to increase their child's grade, according to the research of the Education Union.
The president of the trade union, Radomir Božović, said that these data should worry everyone in the country. "One of the problems is that we don't have mechanisms for protection, self-defense," he pointed out in "Boja" this morning on TV Vijesti.
He said that the problem is that some of the teachers, regardless of the fact that the survey was anonymous, still won't talk about these problems, and that they "endure, keep silent, carry it inside".
Zorica Minić, a psychologist from the examination center, pointed out that if a teacher is insecure and dissatisfied, it can be reflected in his work. "All this has consequences for the quality of teaching and students' knowledge," she pointed out.
"On the other hand, if students see that violence is present - that it is possible to commit violence against teachers, that teachers commit violence against each other, that their parents can come to school, commit violence and demand a higher grade, what kind of message is being sent to them? That violence is okay, that it is completely legitimate to be violent and that strength and aggression are the most profitable," she added.
Božović said that an educator without reputation and authority "doesn't serve the whole society". "Education has been on the sidelines in Montenegro for decades," he pointed out.
He said that for violence against teachers, at least the students' parents should be financially responsible.
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