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Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> The Beard, you are spouting a load of crap.

>

> My daughter knows one of the boys who has been

> injured. He's a local lad, and not in a gang.


I'm afradi he is not. That's the way these sorts are. Simples.

SCSB79 Wrote:

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> Eliza.D Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Surely these kids are known to their teachers

> in

> > school and the school should be feeding back to

> > parents any concerns and for that matter the

> > police.

> >

> > When children enter the secondary school system

> > the school should have a partnership with the

> > parent/parents ('every Child Matters)and should

> > insist on parent feedback.

> >

> > I can't imagine that any parent just doesn't

> care

> > what their child is doing, and hasn't worried

> that

> > they would get that knock on the door saying

> their

> > child has been involved in an 'incident'

>

>

>

> Unfortunately, I think the parents are half the

> problem.



That is part of my point. The secondary schools are less open than Primary schools. There should be a regular dialogue between school and parent and any lack of communication by the parents flagged up.

Once a child enters Secondary they should not be viewed as anything less than a child albeit an older child, but still a child.

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> The Beard, you are spouting a load of crap.

>

> My daughter knows one of the boys who has been

> injured. He's a local lad, and not in a gang.




I'm sorry to hear that he's a friend of daughter.


I remember when I was young the lads who were most polite to my parents and parents of friends were often the ones who were most likely to get up to the worst activities, bullying stealing or worst.

Is it possible your daughter?s friend is one of these lads?


If he was just an innocent bystander then it is awful that he has been stabbed, but I find it very hard to believe someone would be attacked if they were just minding their own business.





It will be interesting to find out what sparked the argument and the subsequent stabbing.


How is it that these men are still walking our streets carrying knives?

thebeard Wrote:

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> If he was just an innocent bystander then it is

> awful that he has been stabbed, but I find it very

> hard to believe someone would be attacked if they

> were just minding their own business.


I don't agree. Groups/gangs of kids can hassle and insult other kids who are just minding their own business - it happens all the time. Sometimes teenage boys can't help themselves, and react rather than walking away... and it escalates from there.

Jeremy Wrote:

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> thebeard Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > If he was just an innocent bystander then it is

> > awful that he has been stabbed, but I find it

> very

> > hard to believe someone would be attacked if

> they

> > were just minding their own business.

>

> I don't agree. Groups/gangs of kids can hassle and

> insult other kids who are just minding their own

> business - it happens all the time. Sometimes

> teenage boys can't help themselves, and react

> rather than walking away... and it escalates from

> there.



That's what I meant by try telling that to Ben Kinsella's parents. But you said it better Jeremy.

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