Another act of violence at CW Jefferys...

Here's the latest incident to happen at CW Jefferys. Sometimes I wonder if our story is melodramatic, then I remember that this one particular high school has already had: a boy shot and killed in the school, a girl raped by 6 boys in the bathroom, and now a kid stabbed in the cafeteria at 12 noon.

[speechless]

Bobman


C.W. Jefferys Collegiate Institute, a Toronto high school plagued by violence including a fatal 2007 shooting, was in lockdown again Tuesday after a 16-year-old boy was stabbed and rushed to hospital.

The victim was stabbed in the stomach at the school early Monday afternoon, the CBC's Muhammad Lila reported. Injured and bleeding, he took a cab to his home near Jane Street and Sheppard Ave. W. before a relative called 911 at about 12:47 p.m. ET. He was taken by ambulance to Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre where he underwent surgery for non-life threatening injuries.

"He was bleeding profusely from the stomach area," Const. Tony Vella told CBC News.
The student's identity and details including a motive haven't been disclosed.

The northwest Toronto school, located at 340 Sentinel Rd., was under lockdown for about three hours until 4 p.m. ET while police investigated.

"These are our kids," said parent Marilyn Valotta. "And what's happening to them? They're getting stabbed and they're getting shot. It's ridiculous. It shouldn't be happening."

She and other parents said they'd feel safer if police officers were patrolling the school hallways, a measure some other Toronto District School Board schools have implemented.

Principal Audley Salmon told reporters that the school has three hallway monitors and surveillance cameras, which police will use to find witnesses and suspects.

C.W. Jefferys has had its share of controversies in recent years. The high school was the site of a shooting that killed 15-year-old Jordan Manners in May 2007. It was also where an alleged sexual assault occurred in 2006 but only came to light much later after an advisory panel investigating school safety reported it.

Manners' death prompted officials to convene a major task force that examined the problem of violence in Toronto's public schools.

The panel concluded that many of the more than 250,000 students at Toronto public high schools face a "culture of fear."

The panel's 1,000-page report, released in January, uncovered an alarming number of unreported incidents of violence and sexual harassment at specific Toronto schools.
In January 2006, the panel recorded 177 violent incidents in schools across the district, including some involving guns, robbery and sexual assault.