For my sins, I look at the DM online most days, and found this today:
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6206079/Sheffield-school-sees-mass-brawl-break-100-pupils.html
Yes, it was awful, but does publicising it like this help to solve the problem?
Back in 1960 I had a supply teacher's job in a senior girls school in Clapham Junction. Some of the teachers told me to be careful, because the previous year the pupils had run riot and the staff had to lock themselves in the staffroom.
It wasn't too bad , there was a still very unruly element . Threatened with a broken milk bottle, and once knocked to the floor. I was young and fit then.
But plus ca change?
Six foot two, eyes of blue. kg v lb. cm v ft + ins
To think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic