[Margaret Pilkington]

Yes, I think you are right Less.
Why should the armed forces be the disciplinarians to unruly (and sometimes) thuggish teens…and yes I know this is a huge generalisation. But from my experience it is the exception that tests the rule here.


When I am out and about on my jaunts on public transport….it is sometimes my misfortune to be on buses filled with a rabble of children in school uniforms and their language is the ripest sort….full of expletives that were usually the domain of dockers or something you might hear in the tap rooms of old(only know from what I have been told…never having been in a tap room)….and the girls are sometimes worse than the boys…..because they tend to be louder and more raucous.

I do try to avoid the times that I might run into these groups, but schools seem to have staggered starting and finishing times these days.