How Safe is Your School?

Horror: Armed police arrested a man suspected of giving a machine gun to children after this shocking image was taken at a school playground in Leicester

Here is an idea – instead of ranking schools according to standardized testing scores, rank them according to how well they meet safety standards. Surely one of the greatest fears a parent of a school aged child would have is that something might happen to their child while at school.

Just looking at the frightening picture of a man showing off his machine gun through a pool fence masquerading as a school security fence, makes me wonder how well equipped our schools are at securing our kids from people like this:

Armed police arrested a man suspected of giving a machine gun to children after this shocking image was taken at a school playground.

‘Ashamed’ parents ignored youngsters’ revelations that a man with a gun had been in the Morton playground, Leics, and dismissed their children’s stories.

The next morning a mum-of-three was sent this harrowing picture – apparently taken at the park at about 6pm the previous day – showing a man brandishing an automatic gun.

Children ran home to tell their parents about the man – who had even given the weapon to an eight-year-old boy to hold.

Armed officers surrounded the play area and eventually arrested a 57-year-old man in Brighton Road, Northfields, in connection with the incident after ‘imitation’ firearms were recovered. The 26-year-old mum, who did not want to be named, said: ‘When the picture was sent to me on Tuesday morning I just could not believe my eyes.

‘I felt so shocked and worried but also guilty because my eight-year-old daughter had been at the playground when it happened and told me there had been a man with a gun.

‘She said he had even given it to a boy to hold. I am ashamed to say I didn’t really pay any attention to her, but after I saw the photo I called the police.

‘They came round and I showed them the photograph.’

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