Did students think teachers were interested in stopping bullying and helpful at resolving conflicts?
When they examined student views on whether their teachers were interested in taking action against bullying, the researchers found: • around 40% of fourteen year old boys and girls felt that teachers were not really interested, or only sometimes interested in stopping bullying; and • the proportion of fourteen year old students who felt teachers were not interested in stopping bullying was around double that of ten year olds and slightly higher than sixteen year olds. Overall, around 40% of students were negative about their teachers’ abilities to resolve conflicts. No significant difference was found in the results for boys and girls. The researchers found: • less than 50% of fourteen year olds believed that most teachers acted in a helpful way in addressing conflict; • around 20% of the students felt that most teachers did not treat all students with respect, did not listen to students and did not understand their problems; • around 20% of the students felt that teachers, far from b
