When we refer to violence in schools, we always think of an incident, which was particularly upsetting. In the past years we heard several times that teachers are not up to the task of managing violent students, who exercie violence towards teachers and their class-mates. Discussions follow, they blame >>tensions<<, media report on events and people offer comments. Where are the reasons, what can we do about this, does a teacher have enough authority, has the school of home let these students down? The article with the purpose of opening an open-public duscussion related to violence in educational institutions is a product of experience of its authors. Ms Nussdorfer has been facing violence for several years as senior prosecutor of state an...