WATCH: Quebec's education minister is hoping to reduce the number of violent incidents in Quebec schools. Bernard Drainville released a long-awaited 11-step action plan to tackle the issue. The announcement comes after a series of violent incidents in and around the province's schools, including a stabbing in Laval earlier this week. Global's Franca Mignacca reports.
Drainville says he’s visited some 54 schools over the last year and has heard, repeatedly, that violence is becoming more of an issue — both physical violence and psychological violence.But, he says, it’s difficult to say to what degree the number of violent incidents has increased as the province has no standardized way of collecting data.
Since 2012, Quebec schools have been required to each have an anti-violence plan, but Drainville says there has been little follow-up or updates to those plans, and in many cases, it appears they’ve been “collecting dust.”
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