Unions have demanded action to ensure pupils and staff feel safe in about violent behaviour in classrooms.
Moray currently has the highest rate of primary school exclusion rates in the country with 18.2 per 1,000 pupils – the national average is 11.
Yesterday, union officials from EIS revealed some teachers are being subjected to violent or aggressive behaviour up to four times a day.
Council officials have admitted there is a growing trend of “challenging behaviour” in schools but stressed most incidents are limited to a small number of pupils.
Speyside Glenlivet councillor Derek Ross said: “We are supposed to be getting it right for every child and we are in danger of not getting it right for any of our pupils.
“In some cases pupils are frightened about the type of behaviour that is going on.
“Our teachers and teaching assistants are subjected to it day in, day out. It has a huge effect on them and pupils. It’s the elephant in the room in Scottish education.
“Glasgow has special units for this type of behaviour, which skews statistics against Moray. I’m in favour of inclusion but if it isn’t working and we can’t resource it properly then maybe we need to look again at that policy.”
Moray has the third highest secondary school exclusion rate in Scotland with 54.3% per 1,000 pupils – above the national average of 47.7%.
Kathy Henwood, the council’s acting head of integrated children’s services, stressed it was important not to “demonise” pupils.
Acting director for education and social care Graham Jarvis added: “It’s a small number of pupils who are repeat offenders. That doesn’t undermine the fact staff have been assaulted or abused. We need to look at it and keep it on the agenda.”
