Test your instincts on realistic school situations — WhatsApp groups, play-fights, a teacher's put-down, a leaked photo — and learn to sort violence from conflict, and what to do first.
By the end, you can
judge whether a school situation is violence, ordinary conflict or a grey area, and choose a sound first response.
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What Counts as School Violence? Sorting Real Situations
Why this matters
Most teachers agree violence is more than a fist fight. The hard part is deciding, quickly, whether what just happened is violence, ordinary conflict or nothing at all.
Too narrow, and a learner is left unprotected. Too broad, and every scuffle becomes a crisis. This quest is practice at that call. ⚖️
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