My two lads jump at the chance of work and are both good grafters. My eldest works part time at Maccies and will do a shift after school as well as Sat and Sun. My eldest lads' girlfriend has a part time job. My skiing friends daughter has a part time job to fund her driving lessons, car etc. The other ski friends son, feeds the dogs, looks after the hawks, before and after school and works for his dad on his days off.
Well firstly, what you say ain’t 'evidence'. It’s your personal observation but I don’t refute it. I have no 'evidence' to present to you other than my observations based on 20+ years of working with youths. Whilst some have made a real go of it and I am proud to have been a part of that, many come with the attitude I described earlier. No pen of them have a plan that starts with working on low wages, gaining experience and building up in whatever trade they are in. Many want to be on 200 quid a day from the day they leave whatever institution they are in. There’s only one way to get that and it usually leads to jail.
Yep, drug use and drug dealing. I lost two before Christmas as they preferred to run drugs for others instead of being on a training course. £120 a day I heard just for delivering the ****. From my observations the most common link I find with the ones that are hard to get to is coming from a broken home. They seem to lose all trust in adults because of the way they have been treated. I hear of some truly horrible cases. That’s where your children (and mine) get their stable role models from. Well, that’s my theory anyway.
What is? I have made no claims.
Not that good at what you do?
Apologies. I didn’t explain myself properly. I am referring to the students that come to me, none of which could be in anyway described as mainstream students.
