Knives at School: a Double-Edged Standard
Back in November, a child at my kids’ middle school was allegedly assaulted with a knife. A group of students had apparently been “playing around” with plastic knives during recess and one of them decided to take his game to the next level: using his weapon on a peer. Where was the adult supervision when this “game” was being played? How did these kids manage to bring knives to school? Two completely valid questions. The answer to the first is yet another question mark. The answer to the second is two-fold. Firstly, these kids didn’t bring knives from home. Rather,…
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