About

A Teachers’ Pain is a 7 minute radio documentary pitched and produced for BBC Radio 4 at Bournemouth University. It has been created to inform and raise awareness on the violence and abuse teachers face in his/her classroom, by their students.

Stories about violence between students is common but rarely do we see the other side of it. The side where teachers get pushed, shoved, spat on, bitten, which leads to terrible mental and physical scares which can sometimes lead to – death.

In this documentary we talk to two teachers, to find out their personal experience with school violence. We also speak to a child trauma expert to understand why children act in an aggressive way. Finally, a charity organisation that helps children turn their lives around from a past where they have been violent; understanding the training teachers need to deal with such situations; what changes we can expect in the education system; and what leads a person like my interviewee, down to the path of – murder.