12:15 EDT, 24 May 2021
A young girl has been suspended after teachers found a knife in her school bag just weeks after a student was stabbed at another Sydney school.
Teachers at Kingswood South Primary School in Sydney s west found the pocket knife in the girls backpack after they were notified by students.
No one was hurt but the girl was suspended under the Department of Education s policy on knives.
Teachers at Kingswood South Primary School found the knife in the female student s backpack
The girl was suspended after a teacher found the pocket knife in her schoolbag (stock image) The student did not take the knife out of her bag and threaten others. No one was injured during this incident, a spokesperson told The Daily Telegraph.
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When Roy Haines pulled into the driveway of his Tamworth home and saw police officers he knew something was wrong.
âI donât usually get the police visiting me,â he said.
The officers had come to tell him his son, William âBillâ Patrick Alwyn Haines, had died at the Cessnock Correctional Centre, in the NSW Hunter, on April 27.
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Pictured: A kirpan, traditionally carried by baptised Sikhs
A legal loophole means students in several states are still allowed to bring knives to school, despite horrifying scenes in Sydney where a teenage boy was allegedly stabbed with a Sikh kirpan.
The New South Wales government banned kirpans from schools on Tuesday after a 14-year-old boy allegedly used a ceremonial dagger to stab a 16-year-old male student at Glenwood High School in Sydney s north-west on May 6.
According to the state s education department, the boy was allowed to carry it on school grounds because it was classified as a religious weapon - before the rules were reversed.
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