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A schools tsar has blamed parents for their children running riot amid a rise in classroom violence across the UK. British schools are currently having to clamp down on students' behaviour during the school day due to their parents' lax approach to discipline. The Department for Education's ambassador for attendance and behaviour Tom Bennett has stressed simmering tensions between parents and teachers over who was responsible for their children's behaviour. Over the course of the autumn term in 2024, around 16,000 students were suspended for assaulting an adult - a higher figure than children taken out of school across a year 10 years ago. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Now, teachers and other staff members are even having to accommodate raucous children by wearing bite sleeves. Mr Bennett told The Times: "Some parents have very weak boundaries with their own children. "They allow them to be on their iPads and phones all day and think that that’s loving and caring because that’s what they want and ‘it’s making my child happy’. "Schools are saying, no, we are going to do it [discipline] like this and that parenting gap is where a lot of this comes from. Parents and schools have moved in different directions." MORE TO FOLLOW... LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: Keir Starmer to address Parliament today amid calls for his resignation WATCH: Sadiq Khan skewered on GB News after getting St George's Day wrong in social media post Iconic English cathedral could face ruin thanks to 'cultural vandalism' VAT raid Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter
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