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Blimey, things must be tough if Scottish teenagers struggle to cross the road

I blame the teachers and the sad demise of the Tufty Club.

When I was between 7 and 9 years old we lived in semi-rural Essex. I remember at the time that school buses were a normal feature. They kept us safe from being abused on the streets, so that we could be abused by the older kids on the bus instead. It was character building stuff. Bring 'em back, I say.

They could have given the parents of these kids ten grand each to drive their own kids to school and it would've been cheaper. How have they managed this?

Greedy cabbies

Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:48 am Blimey, things must be tough if Scottish teenagers struggle to cross the road

Probably off their tits on smack, give them the benefit of the doubt.

Hoover Attack wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 12:40 pm

Currywurst and Chips wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:48 am Blimey, things must be tough if Scottish teenagers struggle to cross the road

Probably off their tits on smack, give them the benefit of the doubt.

Exactly, can’t expect them to walk a mile to school when they had a Pizza Crunch supper for dinner either

Leave the scotch school kids alone. I'd like to see any of you lot try and walk a mile to school after a bowel of cornflakes in buckfast for breakfast.

So many racists on one MB.

We're only pulling your gouty leg, maxy x

Ageists too, it appears.

All the isms.

Dunners wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 11:14 am When I was between 7 and 9 years old we lived in semi-rural Essex. I remember at the time that school buses were a normal feature. They kept us safe from being abused on the streets, so that we could be abused by the older kids on the bus instead. It was character building stuff. Bring 'em back, I say.

Mate, that was 45 years ago. Things have changed considerably since then.

Private businesses are opening new schools for SEND kids at a rate of one every five days.

They then charge councils fees of up to £350,000 per kid to attend these. Spending on these private schools has risen 300% in eight years.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e19b26 ... c278e4ae25

Currywurst and Chips wrote: Mon Mar 24, 2025 10:09 pm Private businesses are opening new schools for SEND kids at a rate of one every five days.

They then charge councils fees of up to £350,000 per kid to attend these. Spending on these private schools has risen 300% in eight years.

https://www.thetimes.com/article/e19b26 ... c278e4ae25

With all kids being classed as having special needs these days they'll be able to close down all the state schools as no one can go to them anymore.

Council paid £500,000 to house child in an unregistered house for four months

https://www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/artic ... -5klhhgmx6

My local council has zero debt. Presumably because they spend sod all on getting IT systems to work.

Enter postcode: AB01 2CD
Enter in correct format: AB012CD
Enter in correct format: ab01 2 cd
:
:
continue ad infinitum

I finally got it to accept AB01 2cD

Clearly their Gavin Filter is working.

Birmingham not bankrupt after all? Just got their sums wrong by £1Bn

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74j0jelrvko

SEND debt will be paid by central govt

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd95572xpeo

SEND still bankrupting councils, how has this and other statutory requirements been allowed to go on for so long?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ecast-2028

Long slender neck wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2026 9:49 am SEND still bankrupting councils, how has this and other statutory requirements been allowed to go on for so long?

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2 ... ecast-2028

Who’s making loads of money providing this support?

Good question, I'm not really sure

- private health providers doing 'assessments'
- transport providers (to/from school services)
- private education providers?

My point more is that councils shouldnt have to carry the can for these and other statutory costs as it eats up a lot of their budget at the cost of everything else because its a legal requirement.

We predicted this back on page 6 of this thread. It was baked in, and will only get worse.

Dunners wrote: Tue Oct 13, 2026 12:28 pm We predicted this back on page 6 of this thread. It was baked in, and will only get worse.

Have you ever posted anything about Leyton Orient?

Are you even an Orient fan?

Asking for a friend!

Who's the friend, Qin"yyy?