Thugs in School Uniform - Anyone read this article?
Did anyone read this article written by Leah Hardy in the Daily Mail yesterday?Title: The Frightening day I stood up to thugs in school uniform....while their teacher sat, watched and did nothing!This relates to an incident on the No.70 bus going from Ealing to Kensington, it does not mention the name of the school these pupils attended, the article said 'Fresh from their local comprehensive' jostling, fighting, deliberately pushing passengers aside, pressing the emergency alarms and screaming obsecenities. Girls lolled against doors chewing gum and swearing loudly. Two of the 'children' - the ringleaders, who looked about 25 but were probably 16 - were as tall as adult men, with dreadlocks, incipient beards and trousers worn to show their underpants topped with an approcimation of school uniform.They swore loudly, especially at the driver when he had the timerity to ask them to stop pressing the alarm, and stared challengingly around the bus daring any of us to stare back.The article goes on to say that one of the ringleaders started slapping one of two small boys (from the same school)about the head.No-one on the bus was brave enough to sat or do anything - everyone was afraid of these so called 'children'. The lady who wrote the article finally approached the bully and asked him to leave the boy alone. Anyway to cut a long story short the small boy managed to get off the bus whilst the lady was talking to the bully.What was the annoyng thing about reading this article is that one of their teachers was also on the bus but did absolutely nothing. She said she was NOT scared but would 'deal with it professionally tomorrow' The writer goes on to say that she is not a 'teacher basher' and adores her own children's kind and committed teachersat their London state primary school. She said 'How do you go on to command this kids' respect in the classroom if they see you sitting silent outside it?The writer later looked up the school's Ofsted report and was unsurprised to see it had a 'good' rating and was praised for its excellent 'pastoral care' of pupils. She said that 3 years time when choosing a secondary school for her children she will ignore the Ofsted reports and simply travel on a bus that passes the school at 3.30pm.Sorry I have just typed part of the rather lengthy article but It just makes one wonder what is happening some schools today when a group of 'children' can terrorise passengers on a bus knowing full well that they are untouchable.No wonder my husband and I try to avoid travelling on public transport at that time of day. We have also experienced similar behaviour. We notice that in some areas the police have to show a visible presence when school finished at the end of the day.How times have changed.
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