Posted: Feb 22, 2021 5:00 AM CT | Last Updated: February 22
Students board a school bus at the Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit in a March 30, 2009, file photo. In the 2019-2020 school year, there were more than 1,000 violent incidents in Nunavut's schools.(Nathan Denette/Canadian Press)
This is Part 1 of a three-part series on violence in Nunavut's schools.
In the 2019-2020 school year, there were more than 1,000 violent incidents in Nunavut's schools.
Of those, 971 were student-on-student incidents, 110 were incidents where students were alleged to have assaulted staff, and 12 were where staff were alleged to have assaulted students.
Schools also issued 491 suspensions, totalling more than 1,400 missed days of school for Nunavut students.