An eight-year-old boy was made to write a letter of apology to a classmate he had threatened with a knife SWNSAn eight-year-old schoolboy who threatened another pupil with a pocket knife had had the weapon confiscated from him hours earlier. The Year 4 pupil at the school in Camden, north London, was able to take the blade back after his teacher failed to secure it properly. The boy then threatened another boy, who was in the year below him. School bosses failed to report the incident properly until it had been revealed by Leila Roy, a Tory borough councillor, at a council meeting on Monday, she claimed. The boy was made to write an apology as “reparation” to the victim, in which he wrote: “I should never say that I am going to cut you.”Ms Roy said that the victim’s mother gave her the…

Source: The Times March 28, 2018 23:37 UTC