Leeds teacher stabbing: isolated event, shocking tragedy, or both?
How should we – parents, pupils, teachers and government ministers – respond to such an awful act of violence?
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Brunei may be small – but it is earning an over-sized reputation for brutality as it introduces Sharia law punishments for offences including pregnancy outside marriage and homosexual acts.
How should we – parents, pupils, teachers and government ministers – respond to such an awful act of violence?
After teacher Ann Maguire was stabbed in a school in Leeds on Monday, the clamour has begun for safer schools to stop the tragedy ever happening again – but experts warn against knee-jerk responses.
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