The NLTA says a meeting is scheduled for next week to look at the issue of violence in schools over the last academic year.
In March, President Trent Langdon sounded the alarm in March after access to information requests showed a spike in the daily number of violent incidents reported in the classroom.
Langdon says efforts to address the issue are very much a “work in progress.”
He notes that the problem is societal in nature, and increases in public violence and domestic violence are creeping their way into the classroom which is the “worrisome piece.”
Langdon says they are working with government and other stakeholders such as police and Indigenous representatives. Their School Safety Coalition is having their third meeting next week.
He says everything they are doing is in response to violence in schools, and they are trying to figure out how they can be preventative with the issue.