Bullied, slut-shamed, overworked: why Australia could lose an ‘entire generation’ of school principals

A new report details ‘really inappropriate’ student behaviour as educators point to an alarming cultural shift playing out in the classroom

Angela Falkenberg has been called a “bitch dog” while principal of a primary school. She has colleagues who have been slut-shamed, she says, and threatened with having their throats slit.

The president of the Australian Primary Principals Association (Appa) has had four decades in the education system, and says “every year, behaviour gets worse”.

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