{"id":190380,"date":"2024-05-30T20:25:06","date_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/violence-and-aggression-against-educators-grew-post-pandemic-survey-says"},"modified":"2024-05-30T20:25:06","modified_gmt":"2024-05-31T01:25:06","slug":"violence-and-aggression-against-educators-grew-post-pandemic-survey-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/05\/violence-and-aggression-against-educators-grew-post-pandemic-survey-says","title":{"rendered":"Violence and aggression against educators grew post-pandemic, survey says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/violence-and-aggression-against-educators-grew-post-pandemic-survey-says2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While threats and violence against pre-K to 12th-grade teachers and other school personnel in the United States declined during the pandemic, after the restrictions were lifted, incidents rebounded to levels equal to or exceeding those prior to the pandemic, according to research published in American Psychologist.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the percentage of teachers expressing intentions to resign or transfer rose from 49% during the pandemic to 57% afterward, the researchers found.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAggression and violence against educators and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/school+personnel\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">school personnel<\/a> are major concerns that affect the well-being of school personnel and the students and families they serve. This study highlights a growing crisis in our schools that needs to be addressed nationally,\u201d said lead author Susan Dvorak McMahon, Ph.D., of DePaul University, chair of the APA Task Force on Violence Against Educators and School Personnel. The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/task+force\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">task force<\/a> conducted two surveys in collaboration with national education and related organizations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While threats and violence against pre-K to 12th-grade teachers and other school personnel in the United States declined during the pandemic, after the restrictions were lifted, incidents rebounded to levels equal to or exceeding those prior to the pandemic, according to research published in American Psychologist. As a result, the percentage of teachers expressing intentions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}