Specific legal framework for school security now essential

The recent violent incidents in some primary schools and kindergartens in China has raised the issue of school security from social level to the political level, according to a May 5 report on the 21st Century Business Herald. But many people are concerned that some of the measures now in place won't be maintained in the future.

Besides improving teachers', parents' and students' sense of security, educationists believe a school security law must be introduced to regulate management of campus security so as to effectively solve the issue, the report said.

As early as March 1999, Guo Shenglian, a professor from Wuhan University of Water Resources and Electric Power, led Hunan delegation in proposing a related bill at the second session of the ninth National People's Congress (NPC). And since then some NPC deputies have also put forward bills for making a school security law in subsequent sessions. But yet here we are today and there is still no law.