There’s been an unsettling uptick in student violence against teachers in Texas. Over 4,000 reports of student-caused injuries were made by teachers and school faculty in Bexar County over the past two years alone, according to a recent investigation by KSAT.
An utter lack of previous data made it particularly hard for KSAT investigators to identify trending factors that led to the violence against teachers. However, countless educators have reported that things are getting much worse.
For example, a Steele High School teacher sustained a traumatic brain injury as a result of an injury by a student on campus, and just last year, an instructional aide from Northside Independent School District died after being assaulted by a student…