FULL LIST: Far North schools with the most suspensions
A Cairns school has taken out equal top spot for handing out the most long suspensions last year. SEE HOW MANY SUSPENSIONS YOUR SCHOOL DISHED OUT
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NEW data from the Department of Education has revealed Trinity Bay State High School is among the schools to have handed out the most long suspensions in Queensland last year.
The Cairns school, along with Ipswich schools Ipswich State High School and Bremer State High School, both handed out 30 long suspensions in semester 2 last year - the highest in the state.
The new data also shows physical attacks on teachers have soared in the past five years resulting in thousands of Queensland students being suspended each year.
The number of suspensions for attacks on adults with objects increased from 1486 incidents in 2015 to 1919 incidents in 2019 – a rise of 29 per cent.
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Physical misconduct without objects rose from 2158 to 3209 – or nearly 50 per cent – over the same time period.
Queensland Teachers’ Union president Kevin Bates said violence or more broadly problem behaviours among students were something principals and teachers faced daily.
He said one type of incident, which was a communitywide issue, was gendered violence among students and targeting female teachers.
“It can be threatening behaviour, sexualised behaviour, physical assaults, it’s on a wide spectrum, and in each of those incidents the underpinning thing is that it’s violence against a female by a male,” he said.
Education Minister Grace Grace said violence was not tolerated in any Queensland school and that no teacher should ever be abused or attacked at work.
“Every Queensland state school student is expected to behave in a positive and respectful way toward staff, teachers and other students,” she said.
The Department of Education data also revealed there were 82,944 suspensions of state school students in 2019, down from 85,662 in 2018, but up from 69,938 in 2015.
Originally published as FULL LIST: Far North schools with the most suspensions