Student stabs teacher down at the high school in Elst – NOS

At a high school in Elst in Gelderland a student, a teacher stabbed. According to the police, they had a quarrel. The teacher could, after treatment in the hospital to the home.

The suspect student has been arrested. According to the police, he is sitting in the basement and he is a minor. Investigators have in the school crime scene done and spoken with witnesses.

The stabbing was on the Over Betuwe College. The location in Elst is for mavo and havo. The students were collected in their classes and in the auditorium of the school.

class called

Classmates say about the circumstances of the incident at Omroep Gelderland that the student from the class was called. Then they heard a scream and they saw the teacher with blood on his hands and a leg.

The victim would be a Dutch teacher. He has been working for long on the Over Betuwe College, says schoolbestuurder Harry Grimmius. The school discusses stabbing Monday in the class and sends the parents a letter.

Violence against teachers

Physical violence against teachers by students is not common, ” says a spokesperson of the General Onderwijsbond (AOb). The last time that a teacher at a secondary school was stabbed was in 2007. “It is often thought that it is getting worse and worse with violence in schools, which fortunately is not so.”

Verbal violence against teachers, although increasing, says the AOb. There are several incidents in which parents of students story went to collect from teachers, what in name-calling resulted. Sometimes this resulted in a scuffle where teachers were beaten or when the throat is gripped.