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Four in five headteachers suffer abuse from pupils' parents, including physical assaults, spitting and trolling, survey finds

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74% Informative

82% of school leaders said they had been abused by pupils' parents in the last year .

Abuse includes physical violence, verbal attacks, spitting and online trolling.

86% of respondents said parental abuse has increased in the past three years .

One victim said she had her face slapped and was "threatened with murder over the phone".

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78

Informative language

79

Neutral language

44

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semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

51

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

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not detected

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short-lived

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1

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