Knife-wielding kids on rise

19th March 2010

One in 10 high-school pupils carry a knife or another type of sharp instrument through the school gates, a new survey has revealed.

The sobering research, carried out by the Department of Youth Protection at Warsaw’s Institute of Psychiatry and Neurology, also found that increasing numbers of teenagers are taking drugs and drinking alcohol.

Looking at 3,000 students from schools across Warsaw, the department found that by that their final year 33 per cent of pupils had taken drugs in the company of their peers, while this figure rose to 60 per cent when it came to the consumption of alcohol.

About 15 per cent of all second year pupils had committed some form of verbal aggression a ...