More than 8,000 pupils are being excluded from schools every year amid a wave of violence across Scotland’s classrooms.
Children as young as five have been told to stay away from school, as a Scottish Daily Mail probe shows a litany of shocking behaviour.
Incidents include pupils attacking other children and staff with weapons, indecent exposure, and threatening teachers and pupils with sexual harm and violence.
In a sign of the changing nature of issues facing schools, disruptive pupils are also using social media to bully their victims at all hours of the day and night.
Youngsters have also set fire to school buildings and property, consumed drugs and alcohol before attending class and stalked staff and other pupils.
Critics say there has been a surge in violence in schools and are calling for more to be done to tackle the issue.
A spokesman for the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) said there is ‘clear evidence of an aggression epidemic sweeping through our schools’ which has left ‘many teachers feeling unsafe’.
Scottish Tory education spokesman Liam Kerr said: ‘The escalation of violence in schools, sometimes involving children as young as five, is nothing short of a national scandal which is taking a huge toll on teachers, other pupils and parents.
