If you got caught, it was detention, 100 lines, a couple of sides on your least favourite subject. Maybe a letter to your parents if you were really unlucky.
So, consider this real life conversation, overheard by one of the little Ps at her school today.
B: So why did you get an e-cig?So, what's your position? Appalling evidence that kids are using e-cigs? Or great that kids are reducing harm by using e-cigs?
A: Mr Jackson (the head teacher) caught me smoking in the school grounds.
B: {gasp}Where?
A: Behind the sports hall where I thought no-one could see.
B: What did he say?
A: That I'm lucky not to be kicked out already, but if I'm caught again, that's it!
Neither. The conversation was between two teachers.
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If the kids are already smokers then it's a travesty that the EU wants to take the safer alternative away from them and condemn them to a life if addiction to KILLER tobacco.
Although I think we all know that governments worldwide are doing all they possibly can to keep world population numbers down while simultaneously milking all they can from the sick and dying.
I think you missed the last line. ;)
got a weeks lunch time detention for smoking in the 6th form bogs, those were the days
And yet there are fools who say the regulatory state infantilizes people.
Yes, it's a stark illustration of the pass we have come to, DP, when the teachers are in that situation.
When I was at school (60s), the staff room was always a fug, and the headmaster (whom I oft had occasion to visit, being a somewhat rebellious boy) would chain smoke throughout the usually painful (the words "six of the best" generally formed part of the closing comments) interview. They all smoked. The french master, a fearsome man (reputedly very much in action in the French Resistance during the war), would sweep down the corridor, robes billowing out behind him, his pipe clenched firmly between his teeth wafting the pungent scent of Burley in his wake. And woe betide any poor soul who interrupted his passage. I'd love to see a headmaster try to castigate him for smoking!
And now what do we have? Teachers hiding behind the bike sheds to have a smoke....
I despair.
You will have to stop doing humour, Dick, it completely messes up the comments. Please remove all traces of sarcasm or irony.
Nutters, and no mistake. ;)
I went to a mixed secondary school. Private space behind the bike sheds was much to valuable to waste on smoking, there are some things more important to a hormone fuelled adolescent than smoking :-)
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