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Schools cracked down on more fights and assaults than ever before as their rolls increased rapidly last year.
Education Ministry figures show the number of stand-downs for children who physically assaulted other students or their teachers reached 9758 and 1151 respectively in 2024.
Both figures were slightly higher than in 2023 but happened in a year when the total number of students surged to 850,999 by the middle of 2024, a high surpassed only by this year's enrolments.
The number of stand-downs for smoking, vaping or alcohol dropped by a third, from 4992 in 2023 to 3360 last year.
That drove down the
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