OP-ED: Blackboard Jungle 2025: What’s Driving the Epidemic of School Violence in Canada?

Brock Eldon writes: "In Canadian classrooms today, the biggest threat to education is not student indifference or the proliferation of smart phones. Increasingly, it’s the students themselves."

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Author: Brock Eldon

In Canadian classrooms today, the biggest threat to education is not student indifference or the proliferation of smart phones. Increasingly, it’s the students themselves. Violence in the classroom is rising dramatically, and while teachers’ unions insist that it’s the result of provincial budget cuts and larger class …