Bullying(欺负) in school is a problem for many staff as well as pupils, according to a teachers’ union survey. The bullies are often other teachers who pick on their colleagues—with heads and senior staff bully most often. The survey says about a quarter of teachers have been bullied by another member of staff.
The survey of more than 900 primary, secondary, and further-education staff across the UK, showed that many teachers faced a range of workplace-bullying threats.
But among the teachers who felt they had been bullied, 50% said it was by a senior member of staff, compared with 25% by pupils and 23% by parents.
“I didn’t report it as the person bullying was the head teacher,” said a primary school teacher.
“I was driven from a previous job by a head teacher. She lashes out(痛斥) at everybody around her,” said a secondary school teacher.
Another teacher, a head of department in an academy, said: “following a poor set of results my whole department have been spoken to again. As a result two are leaving and others would if they could.”
The survey looked at the type of bullying that these teachers had faced from pupils, parents and fellow teachers. The most widespread forms of bullying were “negative comments” and verbal insults(口头侮辱).But almost half of bullying victims claimed they had been threatened and two in five reported “mental abuse.” There was physical violence in just under 2% of cases.
The union’s general secretary, Mary Bousted, warned that schools needed to have policies in place to protect staff from workplace bullying.
“It is unacceptable for any staff to be bullied by colleagues, and schools and colleges need robust (稳健的) policies in place to pick up any problems and deal with them immediately. It is not good enough to just deal with the symptoms(症状); schools and colleges also need to deal with the cause of the bullying,” said Ms. Bousted.
25. What would be the best title for this text?
A. Time to Deal with Bullying. B. Teachers Suffer from Bullying.
C. Students Are victims of Bullying. D. Bullying becomes Common at school
26. Most of the teachers were bullied by_________
A. students B. parents C. leaders D. colleagues
27. The author gives the examples of three teachers to show that________
A. bullying exists in primary schools B. bullying leads to negative result
C. bullying in school is serious D. bullying has different forms
28. What’s Mary Bousted’s attitude towards workplace bullying?
A. It’s unacceptable but hard to solve. B. Teachers should protect themselves.
C. Schools need to punish the bullies. D. Solving bullying itself is not enough.