Peter Morris, a teacher from Bishop Gore ComprehensiveSchool in Swansea, spoke of "pupils fighting in the classroom, throwing computer monitors around the room".
At a staffroom of a typical inner-London comprehensiveschool, teachers recently interviewed by The Economist agreed that the only way in which a young classroom teacher could afford to own property was to have a well-paid spouse or partner.
In response to this need, and convinced that the best place to start in the classroom well before disaster strikes, UNESCO and UNICEF have published a comprehensive study called Disaster Risk Reduction in School Curricula.