in Latvia they are thinking about how to restore order in schools

The decision on how to act in each specific case is made by the head of the educational institution. School principals acknowledge that government-approved amendments to the regulations on preventive health care, first aid and student safety in educational institutions and organized events are a solution to situations of violence in schools, but broader legal powers are needed to increase administrative capacity. school authority.

The level of aggression in society as a whole is increasing, and understanding of what is acceptable and what is not is very different. Director of Liepaja Secondary School named after. Rainis and acting The director of the Liepaja West Bank Secondary School, Kārlis Strautins, gave an example: two students are fighting, and the third is filming the fight on his phone. The parents of the child who shot the video, summoned to school, do not see anything reprehensible in such an act – they say, is it forbidden to do this?

Little attention is paid to verbal violence, and in this regard, opinions are also very different both among parents and among teachers, notes Strautins. It’s not surprising, since for several years in a row Latvia has been at the top of the list among OECD countries for mobbing and bullying of schoolchildren.

The director of Tukums Secondary School No. 2, Anita Lotsane, does not deny that there are grounds for this, however, such an assessment, in her opinion, is exaggerated, since some harsher expressions and confusing relationships between peers can be considered bullying. Fortunately, in the school she headed there was no need to act more strictly than the recently adopted rules of the Cabinet of Ministers provide; the participation of a social educator, psychologist and class teacher was enough to find a solution to various conflicts.

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