- “Teenagers caught chucking chips at Christmas tree” from The Reporter.
- Related: Misbehavior Becomes Criminal from Puerile Psyche.
A number of pupils from Rainhill High have been disciplined after they were caught lobbing chips at the village’s civic Christmas tree.
A local resident, who asked not to be named, claimed up to 30 teenagers in Rainhill High uniforms were throwing chips and wrappers at the tree last Wednesday lunchtime (November 26).
He said: “These kids are representing their school when they’re out and about, but this was an absolute disgrace.“
You don’t need to complain to someone’s place of work if they’re behaving badly on their lunch break, so why can’t that be the case for young people? But the “spokesman”–can’t a principal just do this job?–for the school sums it up with a nice parallel to the youth rights movement:
“It is a shame that the mindless conduct of a tiny minority deflects from the exemplorary behaviour of 1,400 plus students.”
