Teachers’ union incensed after parent ‘attempts to attack teacher’

Teachers’ trade union Oelmek on Monday condemned an incident in which it said a parent of a pupil at a high school in Limassol entered the premises and attempted to attack a teacher.

It said that “a parent entered the school and proceeded to make insults, make serious threats, and attempt a physical attack on a teacher”, and that “similar worrying incidents were recorded in other schools”.

“Such behaviours are unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. They directly harm the prestige of the state school...