Is anybody else worrying about potential terrorist attacks on primary schools?

[SunnyPearlFish]

Over the last week I've seen lots of videos/social media posts regarding potential terror attacks on primary/infant schools. Following on from them doing lockdown practice runs in school. It's got me so worried to the point where I'm considering home schooling my children (5 and 4). They absolutely love their school, it's a lovely small village school with brilliant teachers and they have a really close knit group of friends there.

I know it would break their hearts if I pulled them out of school but I can't stop thinking about something awful happening to my children.

On the other hand, I know I need to keep things in perspective and really consider the chances of something happening. I'm just so conflicted, I don't know how well I'd be able to home educate them, I don't really have the confidence to do it.

Just looking for some advice really and peoples opinions. TIA

Here’s your answer, @SunnyPearlFish .

And for goodness sake, give your head a wobble…

By the way if anyone is even remotely concerned that the information in the tweet is correct, they should consider whether ‘Afghanistani’ is a language (it isn’t) or if it has been made up to sound like the country they are currently focusing their hate on.

I've said on previous thread's that the extreme far right have been using these tactics for years.
In the past it was newspaper sales, leaflets, stickers.
Now it's social media the names of these organisations change but the message is always the same.

I think there's a big jump here from my original post about a potential terrorist attack to now being linked to far right groups. I've not mentioned any particular groups/people at all, I'm talking in general! I know anyone from any background can be a bad egg and do terrible things, please don't make this post political as that was not how it was intended.

Oh good god, @noblegiraffe It’s this sort of post that completely justifies my decision to avoid SM.
(apart from MN, obvs. It was quite the novelty when I signed up 25 years ago. Hard habit to break. I’m working on it 😃).
I know very little about SM but how is this garbage not taken down?

Thanks. So the last school shooting in the UK was 1996.

Behave. OP has just explained that she is coming from a place of anxiety. How has someone asking how to deal with their anxiety over fear of terrorist attacks at school become someone with a different agenda trying to whip up hysteria on MN? Yes, OP does seem to be overthinking and making herself unnecessarily over anxious but try and have some empathy fgs.

Lockdown drills are for multiple possibilities. Locally we had armed police and helicopters after a local lad with a replica gun. Police didn't think to inform the private schools that they had locked down the state schools. So try not to worry. There was a marks man standing in this kids doorway pointing a loaded gun at his family but no one was ever really in danger. They just couldn't risk that his gun wasn't real. The private school lockdwn was based on the possibility of a wild animal on the grounds.

It’s not a big jump given that it’s been shown that the thing you’re talking about is an attempt by the alt-right to induce a moral panic, which you’ve either fallen for hook, line, and sinker, or you’re being entirely disingenuous. This kind of thing is political.

Can you not see the image noble posted? She was talking about that not the OP.

Oh dear. Getting a bit slow. Ought to have realised, after the Covid reference.

Tired, long day.

What’s difficult to understand that the UK is on very high alert currently for a terrorist attack? We all need to be vigilant. Removing posts on it won’t make the threats go away…

Erm, I’m not referring to this post/thread. I’m referring to the post on another SM site that @noblegiraffe kindly posted in reply to a specific question of mine.

There was another quote from the same poster implying that OP might be part of it.

Op l work in a primary school and believe me, nobody gets past our office - the office girls are amazing security guards who don't let anyone in the door without knowing exactly who they are.

I’ve noticed schools definitely seem to have up’d their security, which is great. Most schools have password protected locks now which they secure once the children are in school.

All these mumsnetters who are ‘absolutely certain’ the social media posts are just right wing hysteria. We must have the whole of MI5 on here tonight.

This one, Livelovebehappy

https://ugc-assets.mumsnet.com/images/202508/large-lELCqmGNFVKGMniDjVBRbxvs7SCJEkuqKBeI4IOx.png

Not entirely sure how links work but if you scroll up a few posts it’s shows a bit of a rant from one SM site or another about how IsIs has infiltrated the UK and that our children are going to be BEHEADED!

There was an almost identical thread posted yesterday.

Not really.

Ah yes, I'm sure Active Patriot and his IMMIGRANTS want to BEHEAD our KIDS post is perfectly genuine.

I'm not sure you need GCHQ to spot that one.

I’m wondering that too, tbh. Why on earth would anyone posting that they were worried about the terrorist threat in schools suddenly throw in that they “didn’t understand all “the fuss about Covid either”?
Blimey, I’m slow on the uptake this evening.
Hi, Vladimir.

I swear these are made up threads to incite fear. No one in my life is worried about this.

A certain section of the population does seem to be letting themselves get whipped up into a frenzy about immigrants at the moment unfortunately

Feeling like a prize fool now. Am I really so dim? I offered sympathy 🤯
Hard work. I am not a sympathetic person 🤣