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 Violence in many British schools is rapidly increasing. The use of knives is becoming so widespread amongst teenagers that the authorities have decided to install airport-like scanners at the entrance of hundreds of schools.
In January 2008, a girl of 13 was stabbed in the chest and thigh shortly after finishing lessons at a London school. In the past few months, a number of stabbings have occurred at or outside schools. Last week a court heard how a 16-year-old stabbed a 17-year-old three times outside a school in Regents Park, north London. Other recent cases involve teenage stabbing at a north Devon school, in the South West.
In 2003, Luke Walmsley, 14, was stabbed to death by a 16-year-old pupil in the corridor of his school in North Somercotes, Lincolnshire, in the North.
A recent study has shown that 80 per cent of knife crime is committed by 12- to 20-year-olds youngsters. Britain is already the country with the highest number of CCTV cameras: one for every fourteen people. It is now going to be the only country in Europe with so many metal detectors in schools.
This is the dark side of the so-called "anglo-saxon miracle": the price to pay for the rising inequalities is the spreading of violence at a high rate, and a certain loss of freedom for the citizens. As the British government's information commissioner warned in a report published in November 2006, Britain has become a surveillance society.
Knife scanners at school gates to curb attacks (Article published in The Observer, January 20th 2008)
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