Prague - The number of schools where pupils were discovered to have cutting or stabbing weapons on them is slowly growing.
The Institute for Information on Education however assured that this problems concerns only one fifth of Czech schools.
Czech school headmasters were asked online, with roughly 67 percent of them sending back the filled questionnaires.
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"Almost four fifths of schools informed that they didn't register any cutting or stabbing items in the last three years," states the institute in its release about research conducted among school directors.
The survey shows guns are extremely rare among students. Other dangerous items such as brass knuckles, chains or throwing stars are more common than knifes.
Verbal abuse and vandalism
It appears that in every tenth school, teachers are subjected to verbal abuse by pupils at least once a month.
Seventeen percent of schools also meet with parents´ verbal attacks at least several times a year. In roughly half of the schools that responded, teachers are verbally attacked less frequently, in one third of the schools they have no such experience.
Ten percent of the headmasters complained of pupils that deliberately vandalize school property several times a month.
