Teachers want school communities to behave, as new workshop launched for teachers to deal with abusive parents

The teacher’s union and the Education Department have joined together to trial a new workshop helping school leaders to respond to unreasonable behaviours after a chain of recent incidents of parents and students abusing teachers at Gold Coast schools.

Gold Coast Teachers Union Organiser Jodie Walsh said teachers are frequently facing abusive and swearing parents, and called out people phoning schools over bullying incidents and making threats as being bullies themselves.

Ms Walsh also rejected claims teachers are not reporting bullying incidents to parents properly, and said schools are following department guidelines to ensure student safety and wellbeing.