Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotland
Click on the above.
Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account - 12266421 Name - JOHN ROBERTSON
Above, the crimes of violence in Scotland overall and in Aberdeen, as recorded by Police Scotland in Recorded Crime in Scotland: year ending September 2025. Violent crime across Scotland has increased recently in Scotland, down slightly last year, but has fallen significantly in Aberdeen City.
BBC Scotland today, returns to a regular topic – violence in Aberdeen schools, with:
Violence against teachers in Aberdeen’s schools remains “widespread, frequent and harmful”, according to Scotland’s largest teaching union. The EIS said more than a quarter of its members in the city were physically assaulted in the past year, with more than a third seeing violence on a daily basis.
I feel sure teachers in some other parts of Scotland, might be wondering why Aberdeen and all of us will be wondering with amazement at the claim that more than a quarter of teachers were physically assaulted. You’ll see above from the official statistics, that only 2 793 out of Aberdeen’s 231 780 population, just over one hundredth of the general population experienced common assault. For threatening and abusive behaviour, it’s around one two-hundredth! These schools are apparently like nothing I’ve ever seen reported, even in prohibition era Chicago.
Sources:
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c043eq7q9kvo
- https://www.gov.scot/publications/recorded-crime-scotland-2024-25/documents/
Please Support Talking-up Scotland at:
https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/support-talking-up-scotland
Click on the above.
Or direct bank transfer at Sort Code 08-91-04 Account - 12266421 Name - JOHN ROBERTSON
Talking-up Scotland 
Alleged assault on teachers are all self-reported, and the criterion for defining it as an ‘assault’ is decided by the teacher and that is not open to challenge. In essence, if Teacher X says, ‘I was assaulted’, then that is entered in the record without question. A single teacher can make multiple reports.
The teacher concerned might or might not refer the matter to a senior teacher for investigation, and the senior teacher will decide if the child involved carried out an assault or not and take appropriate action. However, if the senior teacher decides it was not an assault, the recorded alleged assault cannot be changed.
That assaults occur is not disputed, but what is dubious is whether such all allegations are accurate.
LikeLiked by 1 person
Today , the P & J , have this below as their front page headline:
“Teachers facing sexual assaults and daily attacks”
(Teachers in Aberdeen report as compiled by the EIS Teachers Union).
The P & J article was written by Alastair Gossip.
Gossip by (sur)name Gossip by nature………..the spreading of that is.
Liz S
LikeLiked by 1 person