LETTER: Fatal stabbing at school is shocking
Our children and teachers fear for their lives
The death of a learner at Thuto Tiro Comprehensive School by stabbing in a classroom didn’t come as a shock to most of us. We are not shocked because, over the past few months, our schools have become unsafe for children. They have become war zones for unruly kids and a danger to other children who actually go to school to learn.
We have brought ourselves to this situation. We have done so by not dealing with a lot of social ills that our communities have to endure. We live in a country where it is the norm to see children carrying weapons to school, where teachers themselves are actually scared to go to school because they fear for their own lives because of dangerous learners. We live in a country where drug dealers, who use school children to push their businesses, are ruling our streets because the police are on the payroll of these kingpins. ..
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