Compensation to Teachers

What is happening in schools these days? The BBC reports that a record £2m was paid to NUT teachers last year as compensation for accidents and incidents at schools throughout the UK. Naturally, the BBC can't resist blaming the accidents on the poor state of schools, but the key incidents involve parents attacking teachers and pupils wandering around with kettles of hot water. Whatever happened to discipline in schools and why aren't the animals they are teaching blamed for some of this nonsense!?!