When schools become crime scenes

THE stabbing of a 15-year-old student at a secondary school in Banting, Selangor recently has once again drawn attention to the fact that violence in our schools can no longer be dismissed as an anomaly even though it remains relatively uncommon.

Less than a year earlier, another secondary school in Selangor was the scene of an even more horrific tragedy when a teenage student was fatally stabbed by a fellow student.