A German elementary school in Berlin, which contains a pupil population who almost all hail from migrant backgrounds, has been forced to hire security guards because of escalating violence.
The school, which teaches children between the ages of six and twelve, has seen a recent increase in violent incidents both among the pupils and directed at the teachers in the classrooms Berliner Zeitung reports.
Schoeneberg Spreewald Elementary School decided that the attacks were becoming so bad that the only solution was to hire a security company who would be able to intervene and stop the violence.
Doris Unzeit, the headmaster of the school, said there had been 30 major violent incidents reported in the last year alone: “Within the past year, the violence has increased so much that we now had to take this measure,” he said.