Overview
- The STEs poll of 13,213 teachers across all regions finds most describe classroom climate as conflictive, with aggression largely verbal but physical incidents increasingly reported.
- About 85.8% say they lack adequate support from education administrations when dealing with attacks and coexistence problems.
- Some 76.6% report frequent hostility or disrespect from students’ families, and 46% believe families do not value their work.
- Structural pressures dominate the findings, with 92% judging class sizes too high for today’s diverse classrooms and 95.7% citing rising bureaucracy that cuts into teaching time.
- STEs links the tensions to burnout, more sick leave and greater use of anxiolytics, and calls for an urgent anti‑aggression protocol and psychological support services, noting hotspots such as Navarra, Extremadura, the Canary Islands and Catalonia.