When Vesna Prekopic took the job as principal of a newly started school in Stockholm, she had worked for many years as both supervisor and teacher.

Incidents of violence at the school occurred practically every day and in the end the task became too much for her.

- The students who exposed others to violence need help from people who have the right skills to deal with children who are violent and come from trauma, she says.

Vesna Prekopic: "Greatest shame - being hit by a child"

Last fall, Vesna wrote an article in Dagens Nyheter with the headline "The biggest shame as an adult is to be beaten by children".

- Being pushed down and spat on by a child is of course shameful because it shouldn't be possible, she says during the interview with SVT.

The free school's answer:

The current head of the independent school in question writes in an email to SVT that:

"The principal acted directly and introduced several initiatives during this time period.

Our experience is that, in retrospect, the business has not had incidents of such a serious nature."

But the School Inspectorate found shortcomings regarding security, study disruption and abusive treatment when they inspected the school.

They also demanded that the school correct the deficiencies.  

Today, Vesna Prepovic works as a freelance journalist - hear her story about the violence in the video.