With school violence on the rise, teachers say cuts will further strain classrooms - BERITAJA

The caput of the Nova Scotia Teachers Union says cuts to the acquisition assemblage will origin much strain astatine a clip erstwhile unit successful schools is connected the rise.

Department of Education information shows an summation successful convulsive incidents successful schools complete the past 5 years until the 2024-25 world year.

There were 27,117 convulsive incidents recorded successful the 2024-25 schoolhouse year, up from 21,409 cases reported the twelvemonth earlier and 17,234 incidents reported successful 2022-23.

Peter Day, caput of the teachers union, says reducing people sizes and ramping up support successful classrooms could thief trim violence.

Meanwhile, the Department of Education is eliminating about 69 positions, specified arsenic literate specialists and mathematics coaches, crossed 147 schoolhouse boards.

But the authorities says unit members whose positions are trim will beryllium redeployed into accepted school roles aliases elsewhere successful the schoolhouse system.