School violence is happening all over the world regardless to ethical, religious, social or even economical backgrounds. The problem is that only teachers feel that because they face it very frequently. Tunisian schools are no exceptions. Many people do not consider school violence as a serious phenomenon to be studied. However, the national papers and the official spokesmen of the regional Syndicates throughout the country pointed at this growing disaster. As I asked in the previous post about the reasons behind the tense relationship between Teachers and Learners..., I firstly want to mention some cases in which the educational staff was subject to verbal and/ or body violence from pupils and even outsiders. You might write about the reasons to enrich the Forum. 
Here are some examples of what happened to mention but a few.

1) A drunk pupil (8th year) attacked his teacher with a shaving blade in Jebniana (sfax) on Thursday 15th April 2010. Strikes were held in the same Prep School for an hour, and for a quarter in the other schools of the region.
2) Two pupils attacked two female teachers in Sbiba (Kasserine).
3) In Qsar HLeL (Monastir) a parent, bodily, attacked the Counsellor on 15th April 2010. The local authorities did not arrest the attacker as he was an outstanding figure in the region. Consequently, teachers went on strike until the authorities responded by arresting him.
4) A group of pupils in Hammam-Lif (Tunis) took snapshots of their female teacher and naughtily caricatured her on Facebook. The administration did not follow the legal procedures. The group put their "Leader" on the shoulders and celebrated their "Victory" because they were not to leave school forever, as the Syndicate remarked.
5) A mother, verbally, attacked the school guard and the superintendents, on her way to the classroom in Bizerte, Saturday 10th April 2010.
6) A father verbally attacked a female teacher in Errouhia (Siliana) in her classroom. The headmaster brought him there. In the same place, a pupil slapped his teacher on the face and carried her through her hair in the classroom on 2th Dec. 2009. An other pupil attacked his teacher with a stick. She callapsed and the pupils saved her. 
7) A pupil slapped his teacher because, he said, she embarrassed him in front of his colleagues (in Kairouan).
8) A teacher lost his two front teeth because his pupil "gave him a head" on the face! (in Kairouan).
9) A pupil knocked his teacher out because he didn't get a good mark (in Bizerte).
10) Two drunk pupils attacked an English teacher, poured alcohol on his head in an attempt to set him on fire but
didn't find a lighter. Had they looked into his own pockets they would have found a lighter and there would
have been a disaster (my home town).

Now, I repeat the questions I asked in the previous topic:
1) What are the main reasons behind the tense relationship between Teachers and Pupils?
2) Who bear(s) the responsibility?
3) In your opinion, What are the solutions?

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