Almost 10,000 acts of violence took place in the 2021-2022 school year, an increase compared to previous years, with Brasov, Cluj, Dambovitsa, Ilfov and Bucharest among the top five counties with the highest number of school violence. district school inspectorates, the document of the Ministry of Education shows.

The case of a 15-year-old student from Bacauwho was held in custody for 20 days after attacking and humiliating two colleagues at the Dumitru Mangeron Technical College in the municipality of Bacău, highlights an alarming situation at the national level – the rise of violence in schools in Romania.

In a recent response to PSD Senator’s request regarding the number of cases of bullying last year in Romania, the Minister of Education, Ligia Deka, provides details from the annual report prepared by the Ministry of Education on the phenomenon of violence in the school environment at the national level, based on statistical data. data provided by county school inspectorates/municipality of Bucharest.

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Almost 10,000 acts of violence in the 2021-2022 school year: top countries

In the 2021-2022 academic year, of the total number of 9,741 acts of violence, 69% (6,744 cases) are acts of violence from the “Attack on a person” category, 14% (1,326 cases) from the “Attack on property” category, 13% (1,289 cases) – the category “Other acts of violence or attacks on security” and 4% (382 cases) – the category “Attack on the security of a school unit”, according to the data of this report.

According to data provided by the district school inspectorates, the counties with the highest number of acts of violence in the 2021 2022 school year are, in descending order, Brasov (1,555), Cluj (746), Dambovitsa (678), Ilfov (539), Bucharest (522) , and the countries with the least number of acts of violence are Karash Severin (27), Mehedyntsi (23) and Kovasna (20).

The number of acts of violence in schools is increasing compared to previous years

According to the results of the analysis of centralized data in the 2021-2022 academic year, compared to the previous academic years (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021), the somewhat increasing evolution of acts of violence in the the school environment is indicated, it can be seen in the answer.

In the first semester of the 2021-2022 academic year, 5,405 acts of violence were recorded. Compared to the first semester of the previous academic year 2020-2021, when there were 800 acts of violence in the school, this is an increase of 85.15% in the context of the return of students to school and the conduct of classes with a physical presence.

In the second semester of the 2021-2022 academic year, the number of acts of violence increased by 67.29% compared to the second semester of the 2020-2021 academic year. The evolution of acts of violence for semesters I and II, as well as annually, shows a tortuous evolution over the last 5 academic years (2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019 2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022), with a slight increase in the 2021-2022 academic year year, also stated in the cited document.

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