Figures on teacher assaults

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Listening to the local news today (I don’t usually) stated that a freedom of information request had divulged that 1300 public servants had been attacked at work in 2025 in the region - over 1000 of them teachers !!

This is D&Gslloway -a nice rural area.
I am just disgusted that the Gov thinks this is acceptable.

There was then a discussion about they number of primary teachers teaching in secondary schools in Aberdeen - not great.

My point is why does the SNP Gov get away with allowing this - and how badly is it affecting children’s’ futures

I thought in England sometimes HLTAs and cover supervisors were used for cover, which would not happen here.
While still part of the state system academies in England can do more or less what they like

I have heard from a Primary School teacher that their Headmaster strongly advises teachers not to go on Social Media using their real names due to the abuse they are likely to receive from parents.

You know when you’ve driven across the border to another region cos the potholes stop.
Friend in child support for schools - hardly touches it has a waiting list miles long.
Hospital very hit or miss, having to travel to another region to see a consultant as none in ours.
Just skint -all money goes on social services.

Cover supervisors don’t teach. They instruct the students which work to do, which the teacher has set.

Is this a normal state school?
I am not aware of a member of staff ever being assaulted at my school.
Recently a student pulled another student off the stage in the lunch hall, he knocked 2 front teeth out and he has been permanently excluded.
Another student hid a knife in the ceiling tiles - permanent exclusion.
i would highly recommend you move schools…

Move schools? Great idea. Out of the frying pan into the fire where I am.
Oh and the fact that there are no permanent jobs available.

Permanent exclusion shows that a line is drawn, some things overstep that line and consequences ensue. My child’s state school in Scotland were totally powerless to stop the daily beatings. As were the police who laid the assault charges knowing it was futile and my child would continue to take a beating. We NEED permanent exclusion to be brought back now.

Are they in sole charge of the class?

Every year things get worse.
A colleague left the profession as they intervened when a pupil savagely beat then strangled almost to the point of unconsciousness a fellow pupil.
Parents didn't give a shit, they wanted my colleague charged for 'touching' their child. This was primary.

Local secondary a gang of pupils from another town came in with knives and tried to stab someone.
Other local secondary the police are there all the time. Staff leaving in droves, its only been open a couple of years.
Its a parental problem. Tbey dont want to parent, they expect the teachers to do that for them. Then object to any sort of discipline. Kids know they are untouchable.

There is a school in Tewkesbury where teachers have done exactly this. And it’s been an ongoing strike.

That goes for all public employees though.

Why social services?

No such thing in Scotland thank goodness!!! To teach up here you need to satisfy conditions set by the GTCS. Cover supervisors don’t exist, HLTAs don’t exist. A PSA (pupil support assistant) is there to support one or more pupils in the class. They do not teach.

i guess because ageing population, drug and drink problems, few jobs. Social and elderly services use all the money.

Council divided over political parties - considered useless by all. They decided to build a new school in the roughest area (though compared to some cities prob not that rough) upshot -nobody goes to it.

Individual schools in Scotland have done it too but nothing nationwide.

Nobody? So it’s closed?

It's a government problem. If the violent children were sent home then the behaviour would soon stop as sanctions would be out on place at home.

im only repeating what people are saying I don’t have school age DCs - but the bus company had a paddy because thanks to free bus use so many kids were filling the buses going to better schools further a field there were no seats for the local people so left standing at bus stops

But there’s an open school with no pupils?

The Scottish Government has decided that there are no sanctions for bad behaviour.
The kids know this and behave accordingly.

Is it primary, secondary or ASN you teach in?

Just want to add. If the “kids” behave badly that’s on the parents, not the school staff. If the threat of punishment is the only thing that will stop pupils behaving badly then there is something seriously wrong in the home.

I’m a mainstream primary school teacher in England, we’ve been told to only fill the official form in if the children draw blood on us, so when I get kicked, hit and spat at or furniture thrown I don’t unless blood is drawn. Occasionally we get someone to if their bruises are bad the next day eg other colours than dark purple.
It’s completely normalised in education, alongside children swearing at us. For reference, I work in a nice rural village, not inner city, and our statistics for Sen/EAL and pupil premium are average for national levels

Perhaps it has some

We’ve had a national teacher retention crisis for over ten years now, nobody has noticed or cares. There are many, many days when all teaching is now is stopping physical fights between pupils.
I can count on one hand the number of days last school year that had no incidents of physical fighting or assaults between pupils and staff or pupil to pupil, 99% unrecorded in terms or warranting national stats

Lots of complex reasons behind this, most linked to chronic underfunding of education despite increasingly complex cohorts.