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Keys?, we didn't need keys to get in.

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I'm fairly sure there is more to it than we have been told.

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Does the school not have any "after school" provision? Ours do.

Why is it "out of the question" for him to walk home 75 yards and be home alone for 20 mins? Can he not be trusted to walk home and not destroy the house if left to his own devices? Have his parents not been educating him about "stranger danger" since he could walk?

At his age (late 60's) I was walking the mile ish to/from primary school alone. Mum was a traditional housewife so was always in. I walked and then cycled about the same distance to secondary school, alone, and then by bus for 5 miles and 1/2 a mile walk across a public park, alone, to sixth form.

And I bet he'll gain a lot from you sharing your life experiences.

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Dave Liquorice

Schools around here won't let a child of that age leave without a known adult.

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Robin

Graham Hill and Colin McRae could also be argued to have misjudged matters away from their cars.

Chris

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Chris J Dixon

That makes it even easier for his mother to pick him up.

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Richard

Yes, such as where did he get the moped from? Surely his parents didn't buy it for him but I've not heard anything from them to suggest that it was in any way abnormal behaviour for him.

Also, the scrote who has been charged lives in Wembley, so hardly a neighbourhood dispute ...

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Terry Casey

Yes I walked to and from school as well. I would have thought your long trips do seem a bit excessive. One might suspect that if enough people locally attended the school in question a rota could be set up to es scort them to and from and supervise when the parents are out. We used to do that when I was a kid. It helped you make friends and it also meant you could know when there were dodgy people around as the old bush tlegraph worked well. I'm not quite sure when this changed to a car to and from, and no wonder kids do not get enough exercise. I don't now its true but even in my senior school I had over two miles in all weathers and it does make you very wise very fast. Its part of education to find the good and bad in folk. Brian

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Brian Gaff

You may think it'd be easy for her to collect him from social services, I rather doubt it.

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Robin

According to press reports the scooter was stolen; the boy had been excluded from school because of his social media posts; he and his mother had been moved from Nottingham because of concerns about him; his father returned to Jamaica after serving the sentence he was given in

2009 for dealing crack and heroin.

It's a bit of London I avoid these days.

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Robin

Perhaps social services could come up with a better plan than two adults driving a total of 84 miles. WTF is that all about?

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Richard

My mother didn't drive and my dad worked away so have always walked to and from school.

This thread reminds me of when my lad started secondary school so I was taking him to work with me in the morning and cajoling him to walk the half mile from there to school. (Straight line, one road).

His grandma/grandad/auntie couldn't handle this and would rock up outside the door to pick him up. Until I put my foot down banned them from butting in and made him walk, the very first time he got knocked down by a car the thick ####.

Only bruises fortunately but i'm sure that kids are a completely different animal than when I was young and brought up to need more caring for.

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R D S

People have been killed outside of London.

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whisky-dave

Even if they did he can't legally ride it until 16, so my first thpught was mistake in idenity, maybe we'll find out one day, what actually happened and why.

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whisky-dave

I'm guessing that the area Bill is talking about is fairly far removed from the likes of London in culture.

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Richard

Yep and as the school won't let the child leave without a known adult they *have* to provide some form of after school provison until such an adult turns up.

What Bill has not said is what time could the mother collect from the school. A 42 mile round trip is going to be 45 ish mins driving one way so with more than just an in and out at Bills one assumes that the mother can't get to the school until 1730 or later. Most after school provison is only an hour or so ie 1630/1700 ish.

It does seem odd that Bill just doesn't "baby sit" for 20 mins until daughter arrives or is that "not allowed" 'cause sister is only 17?

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Dave Liquorice

no coal mines (even closed ones) in London

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charles

When I was 6 or 7 I was not only expected to walk to and from school on my own, but the teacher would send a pair of us to the shop for lollies for the class in summer.

No roads to cross, though.

I was walked to school 7 - 11 either because there was a busy road or because once I was old enough to manage the road I was also old enough to manage escaping :-)

Owain

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spuorgelgoog

Practice varies but a typical one is the school tries to contact an authorised adult, waits 60 mins after end of the school day, then takes the child to social services (at the parent's cost). I doubt that'd end well for the mother the second time of asking. -- Robin reply-to address is (intended to be) valid

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Robin

So come on then Bill.

Admit that on your way home from school at some point a mate would give you a leg up over a wall at the back of a shop (whilst other mates were in the shop buying sweets to distract the shop owner) stole a few glass bottles and then took them back into the shop for the money back on them before buying sweets will your ill gotten raid.

I cannot be the only person on this newsgroup that did that.

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ARW

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