School violence demands more than knee-jerk fixes

THE attempt to livestream an axe attack on a teacher at a Kuching international school is only the latest horror in a string of violent assaults.

Just months earlier, a school stabbing in Kuala Langat in Selangor left a student injured, not long after the fatal stabbing of a 16-year-old girl in Selangor by a fellow student carrying knives and radicalised Internet manifestos.