I even heard that some people in the UK pour echant around in the garden to kill plants, that cant be good for the environment or the children that play around it.
A little too far off topic maybe?
Are you in the right thread?
No, I'm in the right thread, the title is "The UK on the list of the worst places to be a child" I was commenting on the environment in which they are living.
Some kids make their best efforts to make their existence miserable, even if they live on UK or Mars.
I can't believe that. Here in Colombia, the image about UK tends to be good (except for the weather). And I can't live without The Prodigy's music.
I don't know why teen pregnancy and drug/alcohol abuse is being considered a UK-wide factor, we certainly don't endorse it and children are educated as to the dangers; what they choose to do with this knowledge falls on them.
Trying to obtain reliable statistics on drug abuse is extremely difficult for a number of reasons, and personally I think it's extremely unlikely that we have the worst teen cigarette and alcohol problem in the world. Personally when I was younger I found it shocking the number of my young-teen friends from Germany smoked and did drugs, compared to very few people that I knew of from here. Not to pick Germany out as an example or anything though.
The 'poorer' school had a far stricter drugs policy - zero tolerence - if you are found with drugs the police are called and you are arrested, and you are permanently excluded from the school.
Brings to mind the response when a drug dealer tried to sell to kids outside of my school. The head master, both deputy heads, and the 7'4" caretaker escorted him well away from the school property. I heard he went and stood outside the "sister school" (by which I mean another grammar school closely associated with the one I went to) nearby instead and no one did anything about it over thereboth schools have similar good reputations in terms of academic achievement.
I know the feeling about the police; I went with my sister to her flat before to move her stuff out but we found that her violent ex boyfriend had broken in and was already doing so. We rang 999, they told us the police were too busy. After repeated more calls, we told them an hour and 30 minutes later, that we'd tried to stop him and he'd stabbed her in the leg. They asked how big the knife was.
An hour after that, the police arrived just as we were leaving with what was left of her stuff. They had a bad attitude and weren't at all helpful. I probably should have stopped him myself but then I could pretty much guarantee the police would have arrived just in time to arrest me for assaulting him and let him get away with a slap on the wrist as usual.
I was considering that but it would only have gotten me arrested anyway.
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