On the afternoon of December 11, 2007, Class VIII student Abhishek Tyagi of Euro International School in Gurgaon was shot dead by two of his classmates over a petty disagreement. More and more young schoolgoing children are resorting to violent means to find quick resolutions to their growing impatience and frustrations. The alarming trend has been confirmed by the department of mental health and behavioral sciences at Max Health Care. The hospital completed a survey of 1,000 school children — 541 boys and 459 girls in the NCR region. A preliminary version of the study obtained by HT shows 56 per cent boys and 49 per cent school girls who were surveyed have said aggression is present in physical and verbal behaviour. “Our primary goal was to identify behavioural problems of school children and the consequences on the lives...
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