Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5290766-20131106221950/@comment-24130919-20131107044527

Beacon seems to be pretty progressive when it comes to dealing with faunus. They allow faunus students (at a school for training warriors) and at least one professor speaks out against anti-faunus racism in his class.

And a school full of warriors training for a completely unrelated conflict doesn't really seem like an ideal target for a terrorist group anyway.

Really, the only reason I can see that they'd attack Beacon is... Weiss Schnee. She's the heiress of the company that they are apparently in the middle of a brutal war against. Kidnapping or killing her might be seen as a major victory in their war. And they might want to do it now, while they know where she is (she hasn't exactly been hiding it), and before she's finished her training and become an even more formidable opponent.