Girl attacked with pencil sharpener!

Seraph

This was in last saturday's times, scary to think that a young schoolgirl is capable of it...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1837384,00.html

.....just goes to show the reality of edged weapon attacks!

Dyr

the campaign to ban pencil sharpeners begins here...

wont somebody think of the children :rolleyes:

LegacyUser

My God! Don't know what to think about that! Two techers in the room at the time.

It must have been premeditated, she'd have to have screwed the blade off the sharpener.

Now the girl is scared for life. :eek:

dudara

I saw a picture of the poor girl in the Sunday papers, one slash on one cheek starting below the eye, and another across the other eye from her forehead down her cheek.

Absolutely horrible that someone would think so little of someone as to do that

LegacyUser

Yeah, if you look at the link the OP had, looks like she narrowly missed the girl's eye.

I mean what the hell!! I'm not a teacher, but if that is the kind of crap you have to deal with these days in the classroom, I'm glad!!

The girl who did it will probably get commmunity service or something like that - paint the loo walls of the school.

I feel very sorry for the girl who was slashed. No matter who was doing the bullying etc etc, nobody deserves that sort of injury inflicted on them

Dyr

The teaching profession surrendered control of the classroom of their own volition, go teachers. :mad:

pma-ire

Seraph wrote:

This was in last saturday's times, scary to think that a young schoolgirl is capable of it...

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-1837384,00.html

.....just goes to show the reality of edged weapon attacks!

I don't know how I missed this thread??

This is a discrace!

No one should have to put up with this kinda of situation, and the fact that it happened in a school is a real show of how things can get real out of hand in those places when problems are not sorted early on.

Colm_OReilly

I mean what the hell!! I'm not a teacher, but if that is the kind of crap you have to deal with these days in the classroom, I'm glad!!

“I’ve been teaching for 26 years and I’ve never encountered an incident like it. If it was the sort of thing we faced regularly, I’d resign tomorrow,” he said.

So quite obviously it's not the type of thing that usually happens. Anyway if you're looking for cheering up visit www.actsofkindness.org

pma-ire

Colm_OReilly wrote:

So quite obviously it's not the type of thing that usually happens.

Sorry man!

There is bullying of all levels in schools. This case is the extreme. But I remeber a lad getting acid thrown at him by a-holes that were bullying him in secondary school with me. It left a major scar on his leg and he ended up having to leave the school. Crazy thing is that the lads that were behind it stayed in the school and just moved on to another few lads, including me!

Most of the bullys in my school ended up in prison! One was locked up for the murder of a 70yr old woman he was robbing from.

This kind of disrespect to others is not handled at all by schools or society. Ineffective and sloppy responces let this attitude continue to be allowed.

Dave Joyce

Well said, Paul, I have to agree. From reading that story, to me it appears the victim was punished (ie having to leave school) while the perpetrators went totally unreprimanded (not only staying at school but actually moving on to bully other students) which obviously lead them to believe that they could get away with this kind of ****ty behaviour in school and from the sounds of things in their future (sic!) lives. When are we going to really punish the people behind these kind of incidents properly.

biko

What gets to me is that is is fairly clear the attacker was going for the poor girls eyes (look at the picture again)?

pma-ire

biko wrote:

What gets to me is that is is fairly clear the attacker was going for the poor girls eyes (look at the picture again)?

Most violent attacks I have seen and heard of in the last 5 or 6 years are directed to the head area! The term "Dance On His Head" comes to mind. Which killed one lad and made another brain dead a few years ago in Cork.

pma-ire

this young girl is being interviewed on Sky News tomorrow night!!

at 7.30pm i think?

memphis

Only coming across this thread now. God knows how I missed it.

This is horrific stuff, to think that someone could scoop so low as to do such a thing. As said, it is a sad fact that bullying occurs in most school across the globe. However this is the extreme.

I myself was the victim of months of bullying when I started in secondary school. I was teased, name called, pushed about, and generally tormented to the extreme. I had the lad reported numerous times, and was told he was "under observation".... in the end I had enough, and I confronted the bloke.... caught him by the skruff of the neck, f**ked him up against the lockers, and leathered the little tosser.

I know its the wrong approach, but the sad reality is that you have to rise to the bullies level, and give em some of their own medicine.