31.   Some children who reached the school gate burst into tears and had to be taken home, the Pioneer newspaper reported Thursday.

32.   Students and teachers at the Beijing Chemical Industry Management College wrote large posters detailing the dispute and placed them just inside school gates for passers-by to read.

33.   The race began at the school gates and Yosef was leading the race, which involved six students, he said.

34.   These girls were in perfect uniform until they got past those school gates.

35.   Trouble flared at the school again Monday when white parents threatened television cameramen and chased them from the school gates.

36.   Wednesday morning, dozens of school children in uniform were seen returning home after finding school gates shut.

37.   Throughout Thursday, a steady stream of tearful parents and children placed flowers, candles, teddybears and soft toys at the school gates.

38.   Then they lay a wreath among the growing mountain of flowers at the school gate.

39.   The issue of knives shot up the political agenda after London headteacher Philip Lawrence was stabbed to death by a pupil outside his school gates last December.