In early August, Manitobans learned that a Brandon police officer, Const. Moshe Kinov, was invested in the Order of the Buffalo Hunt. This is an extremely high honour, and Const. Kinov received it because he disarmed a student who had seriously injured another student with a machete in a Brandon school.

When parents send their children to school, they don’t expect them to be confronted by other students threatening their lives or disrupting their education. Likewise, when teachers and educational assistants (EAs) go to work, they expect to be treated with respect and not to fend off students who want to assault them, physically or verbally.

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This expectation was common in the past, but not today.

Physical violence and verbal assaults in public schools are on the rise.

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