The main point should surely be that the VAST majority of our children do not take weapons to school and would never consider doing so. Any number of people in education will tell you the same as will the national crime statistics. They are ordinary, normal children just like we were and like our children were. I have every sympathy with your friend but would say that her son has been sadly led astray at a very vunerable age by the popular press and the people who are crying foul at every opportunity. Education is the answer, not in the way suggested, but education to ensure that youngsters such as him know that it is only demonisation and panic that has brought about his paranoia.

And I still don't know how a thread about changing peoples views over learning differences has become yet another soapbox about violence, children and how it is everyone elses fault. We all know your views from the countless other threads, Lizzie. I thought you may have just been on a new topic this time but, sadly, I was wrong.

DeG