howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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about 2 p.m. i saw 3 children aged about 10 blatantly smoking in the town centre.
2 questions.
1)why were they not at school?
2) who bought them the cigarettes?
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
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#2
howard as a thought.
1,have expelled/excluded.
2,fags nicked from parents poss able.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#3
the first very unlikely brian, i have known them since they arrived in the country they used to live near me.
i told them off a few times for trampling over my plants to get their ball back, just normal kids stuff and i didn't get any lip from them.
the second very likely as at least 2 of the parents regularly nick stuff themselves
from charity shops, jan probably knows them.
Keith Sansum1
- Location: london
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#4
understand jan is on first names terms lol
think one of them is called nicked
as i oveheard a policeman say to one of the "YOUR NICKED" lol
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#5
#6
Ref to the thread ive seen a fair few kids doing the same one was only about 11 at a push such a shame
#7
Still, let's leave it to the free market economy, eh, and not bother with any tried, evaluated and reported methods that help to reduce the number of children starting to smoke.
Sorry chaps. I remember the thread that dissed the ideas. I also accept that these kids probably don't fall into any group that the ideas would dissuade from smoking as the parents clearly smoke themselves. And that is one of the main reasons for kids to take it up. Much like nicking, really........
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#8
well howard the answr is????
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Alec Sheldon
- Location: Dover
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#9
I had my first fag in the bombed out crypt of Manchester Cathedral when I was a choir boy there just after the war. I would have been about 13 I suppose. As soon as I got home my mother knew I had been smoking (not really smoking just puffing I suppose) because I was so ill, she gave me a good hiding and sent me straight to bed.
It sticks in my mind to this day.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#10
i was about 12
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#11
re; 8
the answer seems clear keith, prosecute the parents who don't ensure their children attend achool.
it is the law of the land.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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#12
whilst understand your view howard, is prosecuting parents worthwhile?
will it work?
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#13
Howard i agree with you too many brats around these days getting away with a lot the parents are to blame i would be horrified if my children were behaving like that .
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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someone did get sent to prison for this a few years back mel, let out after a week and her daughter did not play truant again.
what worries me about the 3 i have higlighted is that they get used by unscrupulous adults to "run errands" for them.
Jan Higgins
- Location: Dover
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I wonder if the parents even know they are bunking off school.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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#16
they know alright, just have to look out of their windows or wander around a bit to see them.
even so normal parents ask their children what they did at school when they arrive home.
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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although fining is an option wonder what else can be done
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#18
True Howard altho my three always reply to that question nothing lol
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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Mine used to give a similar answer and I can remember giving the same sort of answer.
Howard, you can see them into school and they can walk out again also how many parents are at work believing their little dears are safe in school.
Many years ago when my daughter was at Castlemount she started bunking off until my husband saw her on a schoolday walking with friends around the town, she will kill me for this.
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Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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castlemount
i recall that school
your right tho jan
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