According to an article in the Birmingham Mail, Harborne Hill School will not be putting on a Christmas show but instead will have a “gritty gang tale” which will include re-enacted stabbing scenes.
The school said such incidents were “reality” for its pupils and the idea was to “explore the effect of gangs and gun crime.”
The play, called Lean On Me, will “star” 15-year-old Ngoni Gudo as the main character “K9” and 14-year-old Claudine Henry as “Angel.”
The play was written by school English teacher, Mrs Ophia Flash. She was quoted in the media as saying that it was “important for the children to take part. Some of our kids live in an area where guns go off and they have to run off and duck. This is a reality for them.”
“We’ve kept the plot simple to be more effective and used special stage knives and blood ‘potatoes’ to portray the scenes involving stabbings,” she added.
There are approximately 22,000 people resident in the Edgbaston ward. The population density is roughly 23 persons per hectare compared to an average of around 36.5 for Birmingham as a whole. The ward has an approximate average age of 37 compared to 36 for the city as a whole.
The white British population accounts for around 58% of all residents. Approximately 17% of the population is of Asian origin with roughly 9.5% from India, 4.5% from Pakistan and 0.5% from Bangladesh. Around 8% of the population is black, including 5.5% of Afro-Caribbean descent. 8.5% are white non-British (including Irish), 3.5% are of mixed race, and 5% are of Chinese origin or belong to some other ethnic group.
In research conducted by the University of Manchester, Birmingham is believed to become Britain’s second plural city, where no ethnicity forms a majority, in 2024. Leicester is expected to become the first such city in 2019. The white ethnic group is still expected to be the largest
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