A 4th grade girl was threatened with having her throat cut. Violence and threats have become everyday life in elementary school

Berliner Zeitung

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The man made a throat-slitting motion toward the eight- to ten-year-old. Not for the first time.

berlingske.dk

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Berlingske has gained access to several thousand pages of documents about violence in Danish elementary schools. The descriptions of specific episodes from schoolyards and classrooms are numerous and hair-raising.

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While the Education Agency wants to keep the increasing school violence as secret as possible, and the media care little, the Danish newspaper Berlingske has taken a real deep dive. The newspaper has gained insight into several thousand pages of documents which reveal a grotesque development. "The descriptions of specific episodes from schoolyards and classrooms are many and brutal", writes Berlingske. And they obviously have no intention of giv…