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Social Services Called After Schoolboy Said He Wants To ‘Fight Terrorists’

The parents of an eight-year-old schoolboy are furious after his school bought in social services because he had written that he wanted to ‘fight terrorists’. He wrote his comments after learning about the Syrian refugee crisis in class, but his parents say they were grilled by his head teacher over fears that he may have been radicalised. The young boy is is the latest child to get caught up in the new duties of schools to report suspicious behaviour. The Telegraph reports: Louise Aspinall and Mark Atkinson, from the Wirral, Merseyside, were outraged by the claim they say was made about their son Rhys and said he made the “childish” comment because he “wanted to help people”. Mr Atkinson says he was summoned by the headmaster of St Michael and All Angels Primary School to explain his son’s actions. The family allege they were also told Rhys was playing inappropriate and violent computer games after Rhys admitted to his teacher he liked to play on his Xbox at home. Mr Atkinson said: “Rhys had a lecture at school last week about the migrant crisis and he came home and started asking me about it. “The next day he wrote in [...]