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SIGN of the TIMES:Boy, 11, forces school lockdown

SCORES of children were locked in their primary school for their own safety after threats allegedly made by an expelled 11-year-old boy.Acting principal Kathy Wesolowski kept students in their classrooms after school on Monday until police arrived. Teachers believed students' safety was threatened when Adam, his brother and a friend went to the school on Monday. Police made sure the three left the area around Whittington Primary School, near Geelong, before parents were allowed to collect their children. Yesterday Adam, 11, boasted to the Herald Sun that he caused the lockdown. "I came to pick up my sister, and they rang the dirty f---ing cops on us," he said. "It's crap, all the teachers are weak. I bash them all." Adam, who lives close to the school, was riding his bike in adjacent parkland with friends just before home-time. Ms Wesolowski defended Monday's lockdown. "I acted properly and appropriately at the time in the interest of student safety," she said. "We dealt with the situation as we thought appropriate, and we just kept children in their classroom as a precaution and just to ensure student safety. "When the police arrived we dismissed the children." Whittington Primary has a 2m steel picket fence surrounding the entire property. All gates were chained and padlocked during school time yesterday, giving it the appearance of a fortress rather than a neat and tidy school. Adam's mother, Kelly, defended her son. She said Adam had refused to attend another school since he was expelled from Whittington last year. "His two sisters and two brothers still go to that school, and yesterday his brother Brandon came home at lunch time, petrified because people had threatened to bash him," she said. "There's kids at that school abusing me, calling me a junkie and a whore, and the teachers don't do nothing to them. "He's not a bad kid. He's got a learning disorder and when he gets excited he just goes off." Another mum, Vicki Fairfield, decided to collect her son Joshua yesterday rather than let him ride his bike home as usual. She said Whittington Primary was a good school, but suffered from not having a male teacher. "The kids don't get the benefit of a male role model," she said. "Josh normally rides his bike home home, but now I'm worried for his safety." Ms Fairfield said the school couldn't take out a restraining order forcing the children to stay away from the school.

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