Knife at school

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I honestly don't know what to do. My son had a knife pulled on him at school and was threatened for this lunch. He was with his mates, maybe 6 of them, someone else handed over cash. Happened in school. Son doesn't want me to talk to school as might make worse, claims he doesn't know them.... I want to talk to school but don't want to make it worse, but equally don't want it to escalate.

Call the police!!

OMG what are you waiting for? There were masses of witnesses.

The risk of injury or worse by knife FAR outweighs your son's desire to keep quiet. You must report this asap.

Call the police and don’t let him go back to school until the matter is solved. Knife crime is no joke and no way I would risk my child’s life by sending him back before his safety is guaranteed.

It's a knife???!!!!
Don't care what my son says you ring the police

To add, the knife crime that has happened in my city in the last week to a 14 year old is absolutely disgusting and heart breaking.
I wouldn't be hanging around not telling anyone

I would say you must speak up to the school but people are crazy if they think this is an easy option. Similar happened to DS and none of the witnesses who were his close friends would speak up. Well they would to me but not to the school as they didn't trust that the school could keep them safe and were probably right tbf. DS took on a very 'big man' persona after this and was never targeted again as far as I am aware. There is no way the witnesses would have spoken to the police. People have been killed for less. If things had escalated I would have removed DS from the school for certain.

I'd bypass the school and go to the police.

Tell the police ffs. Would be a different story if and when someone actually gets stabbed over some lunch.

The school can't do anything if they don't know.

Call the school and ask them to call the police. What are you waiting or? Someone to get stabbed ?

How do you know what happened in school?

Can you report it anonymously, both to the police and the school? I do understand your ds not wanting to the implicated to the knife carrying bullies, he is probably terrified.

Terrifying and while I think you really do need to tell the school AND the police, I can totally understand your fear of potentially putting your ds at more risk if there is retaliation for "grassing" if other witnesses/parents feel the same and don't back him up.

Wtf is wrong with you?? This goes way past what your son Amy’s. Phone the police ffs!!

A child who is carrying a knife is at higher risk of being stabbed - so as long as you don't report this you let this 'child' and it is a child - put themselves and others at risk of serious injury or death.

It is absolutely nothing to do with your son he gets no say in this - it's not about him it's about the boy with the knife and the risk he poses to others.

Call the police!

Call the school. They may well have CCTV, but they can talk to your son and the others independently, get them to pick out the kid from photos.

Literally ridiculous you wouldn't talk to the school

Honestly change school- this is not normal and for it to happen there are things seriously wrong there

If you call the police they will tell the school and won't be able to do anything because your son is not providing any information

Pull him out of the school and call the police. He will also be traumatised so he needs counselling.