Anthony Furey: Students Are Now Assaulting Educators in Today’s No-Consequences Culture

Hamilton educators with the Canadian Office and Professional Employees (COPE) union Local 527 are shown with bruises as a result of violence at school. Courtesy of COPE 527

Commentary

A Hamilton newspaper recently published three disturbing photographs of women who had been assaulted. One was a picture of bruises across a woman’s thigh. Another was a close-up of the face of a woman who had been heavily bruised around an eye socket. The third was another close-up of an eye, this one a gash just beside a woman’s eye socket.