Some of our secondary schools have major problems with student behaviour that erupts into filmed violence with these clips then being shared. Yet one solution is simple. It is this: Ban mobile phones and exposure to social media from the school. It would also help if the subject was brought out into the open for full, frank and free discussion rather than the school and education department trying to hide the extent of the problem.

Hiding from issues and doing the ‘ostrich act’ only ever results in these situations growing and growing. That leads to small problems of molehill size becoming big problems of mountainous proportion.

Fix the problem by banning mobile phones at schools. Have the rule and carry it out.