howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#1
spotted these lads angling at de braddelie wharf at the end of last week.
do schools not question where their pupils are?
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
- Posts: 13,931
#2
Were they some of our immigrants by any chance? Some of them seem to go to school when they feel like it.
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Guest 707- Registered: 1 Dec 2010
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#3
they might be on community service, for armed robbery, burglary and other misdemeanours. <wink>
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#4
At least it wasn't as unsafe as this kid !
Been nice knowing you :)
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#5
howard,a lot of grey mullet swin around there,they are ok if you like muddy tasting fish.
pauls picture at least he is in easy reach of the beach,would be more worrying if he was futher out.
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#6
He was further out when I first saw him !!
Been nice knowing you :)
#7
There seems to be a lot of school age people about most days .
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#8
A lot of young people are taking their exams at the moment and are on study leave requiring them to go into school only to sit said exams. Perhaps they are taking a break from revision
#9
Could be Collette , but at all times of year there seems a number hanging around town .
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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#10
Why doesn't the Police scoop them up then ? I read in the paper today, that 64,000 kids play truant every day - that's at least 64,000 young people with no future.
Roger
#11
The police dont collect kids up like they used to because it causes to much paper work and is time consumming , at the end of the day its up to the parents to make sure the children are at school sadly in todays society the term parents should be used very loosely.
Guest 703- Registered: 30 Jul 2010
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#12
The police should be scooping the parents up!
#13
yeap and giving the modern day ones a good shaking in a very large bag
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
- Registered: 5 Jul 2010
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#14
Many moons ago we used to take the eldest daughter to school but that did not stop her playing truant without our knowledge. We only found out when my husband saw her in town when she should have been in class.
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#15
I to thought there were teams of of people from the education department whos job it is to go round town looking for theese children.
#16
On another note , we are interigated every time our daughters are ill and have to have a day off , although they only go to primary school .
#17
But the best one in Dover Mark
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#18
vale view primary school ring pupil's homes soon after 9 a.m. if the child is not at school.
the issue is just not truancy but making sure the child is safe.
Guest 645- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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#19
I must admit to 'wagging' it as we called it upt'north. Of course there were fewer telephones in the 60's so the school couldn't ring our mums and the only people we had to dodge were the bobbies on the street in the centre of Manchester.
As I lived 8 miles from my school the chances of bumping into a nosey neighbour were slim. Ah the great Tib Street chippy just off Piccadilly a real treat I can still taste the mushy peas...
Marek
I think therefore I am (not a Tory supporter)
Guest 672- Registered: 3 Jun 2008
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#20
The river has been hammered this last week with adults and kids alike, large numbers of trout have been taken out and there seems little chance of any action being taken to stop it and no one takes any notice of these.
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
Been nice knowing you :)
grass grows by the inches but dies by the feet.
