Too often, female teachers are afraid of being seen as complaining if they protest, and male teachers of appearing weak. Murray says that teachers are often unsure whether bullying is a psychiatric or psychological problem, a medical or educational one, whether it's legal, social or to do with discipline or parenting. It should define and detail all likely events and the consequences of those events - and should be signed up to by parents, pupils and teachers. Anda Doyle goes further. There has to be back- up from the Minister down.
Teachers have to be valued too.
None of my students want to become teachers. As they see it teachers, by and large, don't aspire to great wealth and big cars. Contempt for people like this is deep in the psyche of the new Ireland.