Pencil sharpeners banned after attack
In gun free UK, kids are not shooting each other in school, they are cutting each other’s throat with a pencil sharpener, does gun control stop violent crimes?!?!?!?!?! I think NOT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Pencil sharpeners banned after attack
WEAPON: A pencil sharpener blade
PENCIL sharpeners have been banned from a primary school after a pupil
dismantled one and used the blade to slash another child’s neck. The victim
was attacked in the playground at Waterloo Primary School in Ashton under
Lyne.
He was taken to Tameside Hospital where he had butterfly stitches placed on
the wound. The attacker was suspended for two days and is now back in
school.
Police, who were notified two days later, have spoken to the young attacker
and his parents.
Headteacher David Willis has now banned all pencil sharpeners. But the
decision to allow the boy to return to school has angered parents. Some have
signed a petition calling on the school to permanently expel the youngster.
One parent, who did not wish to be named, said: “Are our children safe when
we send them through those gates every morning? The lad purposely took the
blade out of the sharpener. In my eyes that is a pre-meditated attack.
“My children know the difference between right and wrong. To suspend that
boy for just two days is no punishment at all.”
Tracy Buckley, the school’s head of governors, has written to all parents,
saying the school understood the gravity of the incident and acted
accordingly.
The letter states: “The school, like every other school, has a duty to
promote `inclusion’ of all pupils. The emphasis of the (DfES) guidance is
that a permanent exclusion is discouraged and to be considered as a last
resort in very extreme circumstances. A fixed period exclusion was entirely
appropriate for the circumstances.”
A spokeswoman for Tameside council said it supported the action taken by the
school, which she said was appropriate.
“The school took the incident very seriously and the governors, headteacher
and staff are committed to providing a safe and secure environment for all
pupils.” The attack is highlighted just over a week after 15-year-old David
Sandham died following an altercation at Broadoak High School in Partington,
Trafford.
Yesterday, the Manchester Evening News reported how teachers at Priestnall
High School in Stockport started acting as bodyguards, patrolling streets
round their school, following attacks on five pupils. Was a two-day
suspension an appropriate punishment for the pupil? Have your say.
