Beaten and humiliated on social media: violence in the education system is no longer limited to schoolyard brawls
The first episode of the "Ad HaKatz" podcast's back-to-school series deals with violence in the education system. Keren Neubach speaks with school principal Sagiv Cohen and education policy researcher Dr. Roni Ramot about online humiliation, physical violence, threatening parents, and principals without support. The participants examine how violence seeps from Israeli society into the classroom.
The first episode of the "Ad HaKatz" podcast's back-to-school series examines the scope of violence in the Israeli education system, which extends far beyond schoolyard brawls. Host Keren Neubach hosts Sagiv Cohen, a school principal, and Dr. Roni Ramot, an education policy researcher, for a conversation about phenomena such as teachers being humiliated on social media, students throwing chairs, parents threatening educational staff, and principals left without support from the system. The participants analyze how violence seeps from Israeli society as a whole into the classroom, and ask what happens when the perpetrators are children and the system meant to educate them struggles to cope. They also examine the possibility of beginning to repair a system where both teachers and students feel alone.