5 year-old smuggles knife into Gateshead school
By Paul Smith • Oct 20th, 2008 • Category: news
If you’re a parent, this really isn’t the sort of news you want to be reading. Far from it.
A five-year-old boy was suspended in June, for smuggling a knife into a Gateshead school.
According to the BBC, the child intended to use the cutlery knife as a weapon on a teacher, so he would be moved to a class next to his older brother. Officials have not named the school for fear of identifying the child.
Maggie Atkinson, the council’s group director of learning and children said: “The school acted immediately, calmly and professionally. The article was confiscated, parents and the police were informed and the matter was fully investigated.”
Expect to see this across the tabloids tomorrow, and the name of the child and the school the day after that.
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