Corrie

[Jicarilla]

How unrealistic is this, a head teacher who is bothered what his kids do in uniform after school!!!!!!!!!! It doesn't happen at my kid's school, no matter how often you tell the school head that his pupils are openly smoking and drinking and being little 'a' holes on the school bus, he is just not interested.

[Gill 05]

My son's head teacher isn't interested in what they do IN school never mind out.

[surfer mike]

corrie is total crap..i love it..

[sudu]

I would have to say that not all heads are like that. The head at my school takes it quite seriously and I know of quite a few people who have been given saturday detention/suspended for smoking in uniform.

[orange-gnome]

I would agree there Sudu, my school was always really anal about what we did in uniform after school!

[JudgeJ]

Not quite sure what you mean by “really anal”, orange-gnome. However, I assume from its literal meaning that you disapproved of the stance taken by your school.

Schools have a responsibility to ensure that their pupils behave in an acceptable manner. This duty extends beyond the school gates and is regardless of whether the pupils are wearing a uniform or not. Quite how teachers and headteachers can be expected to discharge that responsibility when just about every sanction they ever had has been removed from their armoury is anybody’s guess. But that is another question for another day.

Nonetheless most people look to the school to moderate their pupils’ behaviour whilst they are on school business – and this includes travelling to and from the site. Any decent school will be aware of their responsibilities will try their best to discharge them. The trouble is the number of decent schools is declining rapidly.

Perhaps the school in “corrie” is one of the few decent ones left!

[twiglet4frog]

my headmaster was very much into drumming into us we were ambassadors of the school when in uniform and that while we wear it we had to make the school look good, so any naughtiness while wearing it was not allowed.

However, I am talking 12 years ago when i left school. How many of the other answers from people saying their heads were similar minded are recent headmasters and ones of 10- 30 years ago. Maybe recently Heads dont care as they are competing with knives, anti social behaviour, drug use and other problems within school times to give a stuff about dealing with the stuff outside the school.

If your head does make an effort what year are we talking about?

[chazza]

We used to get in serious trouble for smoking in school uniform outside of school!

[CT]

40 kids at my old school were suspended last winter for throwing snowballs at traffic ( after school at the bus stop).

[Haggisdj]

When I was at Paisley Grammar in the 60s we had to wear our caps when we were out of school but in uniform

[texol]

I am always smoking and drinking in school uniform but thats a weekend thing cos im 33.