Point taken Klaus (although Swanmore is in Southampton really and as such you are a sworn enemy of all things Pompey! ;) I guess I am out of touch with what goes on in schools having not been to one for 22 years, but I have been talking a lot lately to friends back home and back in my wife's hometown and these knife killings are just not happnening there at the moment. Yes there are murders and crime back home (I actually got arrested on suspcion of murder once but it was a simple case of old bill putting two and two together and making sixty-three) but they are not as commonplace as round here. Thus the risks must be less. I guess I am putting my own thoughts on it, but from what I see, I would not like to be a kid growing up round here. My wife and I don't have money, we cannot afford private schools and things like that. Anyway back to topic, the whole thing makes me really, really sad!!!!