Bullying Experienced by Teachers – Personal Stories

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Bullying Experienced by Teachers.

In the following accounts, teachers real names have not been used for fear of reprisals.

The stories below were told individually to us and come from people working in different parts of the early childhood sector, for different employers.

The teacher accounts are hard to read. For some teachers the bullying was so bad it broke them.

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