Just yesterday morning, Steyning Grammar School witnessed an unexpected visit from the police at their Shooting Field Campus. Shooting Field is a place for students (from the ages of 14-18) to go to school, the pupils there and didn't predict to find one of their classmates arrested. At approximately 9:40, reports came into the Sussex police claiming that people had seen a 15 year old student carrying a knife or sharp blade with him around the school.
'The school acted swiftly and appropriately to lock down all sites and inform the police who attended immediately.'
The boy carrying a knife was not planning an attack, he was carrying the weapon for self protection and nobody was injured during the day. The central ward in Worthing have been told about the incident. The councillor, Sally Smith, has said:
'We need to be thinking about the causes of knife carrying, and why teenagers would feel the need to carry one.'
The West Sussex County Council have also been informed about the incident, and we are all hoping teenagers will not feel the need to protect themselves by carrying some kind of weapon.
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