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Updated 29 July 2004, 18.43 
The mother of murdered school boy Luke Walmsley has told the press she thinks schools need better security.
Instead of airport-style security checks, she thinks there should be more CCTV cameras.
But do YOU feel safe - or scared at school?
Because the stabbing was such an isolated incident, is there any need for extra security?
Or do you think that the point is it happened, so security can't be good enough as it is?
Whatever you think, e-mail and let us know.
Unfortunately this topic is now closed but there are Comments pages on other subjects on the main Chat index.
 I think if this can happen in school which is supposed to be one of the safest places to be, how can we be safe on the streets? Antony, 15, Glasgow
I think we need more cameras for protection in our primary school. We haven't any at all and our school always gets vandalised but now I'm moving on to secondary. Tasha, 11, Bolton
At school I always take a break and think about all the strange things that happened in America but other than that I feel ok. Lee, 13, Birmingham
Extremely. I go to quite a small secondary school and everybody is very friendly. We have a mentor system, but I don't think they get much business! Natalie, 14, Kent
I think my school is really safe and I also think that private schools are less likely to have vandalism and stuff so I feel safe because of that but I think state schools should have more security. Harriet, 12, Taunton
I do not feel safe at school at all, as I have been severely bullied since I started in 2000. All the teachers know about the bullying but they haven't done anything about it. All the teachers get us to do is write a statement of the incident and then that's it. Sam, 15, London
I don't feel safe at school because there are no teachers watching - just a couple of CCTVs. Natalie, 11, Poole
I do feel safe at school because in the playground there are quite a lot of teachers, but I still think there should be CCTV cameras. Summar, 10, Ilford
I think that schools have their own way of safety but everyone's different. We all take keys to school so what's the point of metal detectors. It won't help will it? Donna, 14, Manchester
I do sort of feel safe at school because there are loads of people there. But then again I don't because I know hundreds of the things that we do in between lessons that the teachers don't find out about for years. Lily, 12, Lincolnshire
I don't feel safe in my school. They only have CCTV in certain classes and that's not for our safety it's in case someone broke in to the school. I get bullied a lot I'm very scared it could happen in our school. Amy, 12, Hucknall
I don't feel safe at school, because there are loads of people who you think you can trust, but can't. My friend put my best friend through hell when she beat my best friend up, so you can never be too careful who you pick for friends. Sammi, 12, Swindon
I feel safe in school but there is bulling in the class - mainly verbal and hardly any teachers do anything about and I don't think it is fair. The teachers should be the ones helping and stopping the bullying. Jodi, 14, Cheshire
I feel safe at school because there is CCTV cameras and my friends are always with me. Also the school colour is black and most of the children wear the school uniform or colour so we know who is not from the school and who is! Jade, 13, Falkirk
I don't really think about it when I'm in school but the only CCTV cameras are outside the main entrance and there isn't much security around the rest of the building. Clare, 14, Essex
I don't feel safe as when I go to school people look at me as I stick my head down and get on with things and they call me a geek and teachers pet etc and I have been bullied a good few times in school and out for it so my mother changed my school and I am settled in her know and I feel safe - I love it. Scott, 14, Liverpool
I don't feel safe in my school at all. People regularly have fights - in the last fight, a girl started attacking people with a metal pole. Once kids from another school nearby came after school with knives and threatened to beat people up. Lily, 14, London
I feel okay but not safe because you do not know when might happen. especially in Luke's case it will make teenagers feel less safe. I think the school needs to improve a bit more, because parents want their kids to feel safe at school but at the moment it is like a place you do not feel safe. Felicia, 15, London
At school we have police. There are lots of big gangs who many people are afraid of though. However these gangs normally don't hurt you, there all chat and no doing David, 13, Bedford
I don't feel safe at school because even when the teacher says 'it's going to be aright', it never is...You can never trust what anyone says until you see and find out for yourself. Elena, 13, Boston
I don't really feel safe at my school, 'cos we have loads of gangs. And we're always having loads of fights all the time!! Emma, 12, Doncaster
My school is like Big Brother! There are cameras everywhere you look. I'm not exaggerating, they are everywhere. Juliette, 13, Cardiff
Yeah, I feel safe. I go to a private all-girls school. The closest we get to vandalism is drawing on the desks! Louise, 13, Surrey
I feel sort of safe at school but bullies can never stop being horrible. Tod, 11, Stevenage
I think that schools don't make students feel secure. I don't know about anyone else but bullying is bad enough, but murder! The schools are really letting there standards slips. Kerry, 12, Northampton
I feel totally safe at my school. The only problem we ever have is when the students at the school next door climb over the fence and try to start fights. Eliza, 14, Birmingham
I think who people are bullied at school usually feel unsafe because they feel like none of the teachers can help. Lorna, 12, Hereford
Sometimes I feel safe but other times I don't. They never STOP the bullies. They say they will but they don't - maybe they will know after Luke's death, you never know what's round the corner. Kiaya, 12, Redditch
I feel quite safe in my school, because we have CCTV cameras, which tape everything that happens on the school grounds. Lisa, 14, Glasgow
My school is very big, so I find it very hard to be scared because there is always somebody around who can see you. There are lots of CCTV cameras about, at every corner. Nicola, 13, Flintshire
I feel safe in school because the teacher are always in the corridor and watching you. We could do with some CCTV cameras but we don't have enough money to buy them. Jennie, 13, Leicester
In my school we have police who look after the school. Christine, 13, London
I don't feel safe at all because there are a lot of things that go on that teachers don't even know about so I'm worried that something might happen to me and no one will know. Jenny, 15, Bristol
I've never felt that safe at school. Teachers can never seem to stop the bullies so they never stop and how can you feel safe like that? Maybe after poor Luke's death teachers will try to do more to help bully's victims and to stop the bullying as that's my biggest school fear. Lucy, 14, Norfolk
I feel pretty safe in my school but it could be safer! Ffion, 13, Cardiff
I don't feel too safe in my school. I think we need more CCTVs because the last ones got vandalised. Lee, 11, Barnsley
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