Schoolkid stabbed with scissors
A primary school student has been disciplined after stabbing another child with a pair of scissors inside a classroom in Melbourne’s north.
The Victorian Department of Education confirmed Craigieburn South Primary School has recently disciplined a student after they injured another pupil with scissors.
“The school took immediate action in response to the incident, including providing necessary supports to students and appropriate follow-up action,” a spokeswoman for the department told NCA NewsWire.
The school’s website outlines how pupils who engage in unreasonable behaviour will be dealt with after a thorough investigation.
“(Consequences) may include: utilising mediation and counselling services, alternative communication strategies being applied, formal notice preventing entry onto school premises, an intervention order being sought (or) informing the police which may result in a charge of trespass or assault,” the website read.
It comes months after several teachers were allegedly assaulted after a wild brawl broke out between teenage girls at a secondary school at Tarneit Senior College, leading to the arrests of five youths in August.
Victoria Police confirmed that five female teenagers entered the Leakes Rd school to confront a student over an “ongoing issue” and that they are aware of “tensions” among a small group of teenage girls in the Wyndham area.
In December, a senate inquiry looking at disruption in Australian school classrooms found Australian students need specific lessons in how to behave.
The inquiry determined education authorities should introduce a “behaviour curriculum”.
