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Topic ID 4101
22/01/2009 by buzz
Kids on buses
Posted - 22 Jan 2009 : 16:56:50
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I often use the 333 bus to travel up to Bengeo from the town, and on occasion it is at the time that schoolkids are travelling home. Now kids tend to get a bit of a bad press these days, but I would just like to commend the ones that use this bus service. They are always well behaved, and there is never any graffiti or vandalism on the bus. A while ago, the bus was pretty full when an elderly lady got on. Two boys from Richard Hale were sat near the front of the bus. I said to one of them "Don't you think you ought to offer your seat to this lady?" One of them immediately jumped up, blushed, and said, "Yes, I'm sorry sir" and gave his seat to the lady. Is this just limited to the 333 service or do people experience similar behaviour on other routes?
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Reply ID 59709
22/01/2009 by Millie
I think it's more Richard Hale than anything else. My husband employs quite a lot of youngsters who have been taught there and he can't speak highly enough about them. In his opinion RH sends out very polite, well rounded, intelligent young men. Bloody shame I sent my son to Simon Balle.
Reply ID 59710
22/01/2009 by shunt
quote:
Originally posted by Millie
I think it's more Richard Hale than anything else. My husband employs quite a lot of youngsters who have been taught there and he can't speak highly enough about them. In his opinion RH sends out very polite, well rounded, intelligent young men. Bloody shame I sent my son to Simon Balle.
Hmmm. Not so sure of that. Richard Hale is far from perfect in many respects, mainly in the ways you might expect from a single sex school and SB pupils are frequently very impressive.
In general most kids are ok, but we often only notice the exceptions.
Perhaps, as buzz did, we might all look for the positive more and give praise when praise is due.
Reply ID 59711
22/01/2009 by 2929paul
Well what more do you expect from the children of Bengeo's middle classes?
I once heard some 'lads' swearing non-stop on the platform at Hertford North waiting for the train to London. I asked them to stop and they sheepishly apologised and immediately turned into their middle class parents. I think the truth is that the vast majority of Hertford's children are the product of Hertford's middle class environment and behave as such. The one's that hit the press are the one's that are the exceptions.
Reply ID 59713
22/01/2009 by Donostia
They will be 'well rounded' if they dont start walking up the the hill .
Reply ID 59715
22/01/2009 by shunt
My partner's boys won't take the bus. Apparently busses are not cool and only for softies. What's cool about arriving everywhere soaked to the bone (coats are uncool too apparently), I cannot imagine, but at least they're getting excercise.
Reply ID 59718
22/01/2009 by buzz
Thank God (not that there is one) for kids being kids. We'd have probably done the same, and knowing that our parents disapproved would have made us do it even more!!!
Reply ID 59719
22/01/2009 by Millie
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Originally posted by shunt
My partner's boys won't take the bus. Apparently busses are not cool and for only for softies. What's cool about arriving everywhere soaked to the bone (coats are uncool too apparently), I cannot imagine, but at least they're getting excercise.
yes what is it with that? My son only wears a coat in temperatures less than -5, blizzards, hurricanes and floods.
Reply ID 59833
27/01/2009 by Millie
*cough* well I asked my son yesterday if they'd had a form/class photograph taken today as planned (Simon Balle) and his reply?..."we couldn't have it done because the photographer's camera was stolen"
<-----rolling eyes
Reply ID 59835
27/01/2009 by Steve
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Originally posted by Millie
*cough* well I asked my son yesterday if they'd had a form/class photograph taken today as planned (Simon Balle) and his reply?..."we couldn't have it done because the photographer's camera was stolen"
<-----rolling eyes
Was he on a bus? In Hertford?
Reply ID 59837
27/01/2009 by Millie
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Originally posted by Steve
quote:
Originally posted by Millie
*cough* well I asked my son yesterday if they'd had a form/class photograph taken today as planned (Simon Balle) and his reply?..."we couldn't have it done because the photographer's camera was stolen"
<-----rolling eyes
Was he on a bus? In Hertford?
ok so I didn't know where to put my post...just thought I'd add it to a thread about local school kids [B)]
Reply ID 59842
27/01/2009 by carlos fandango
Sounds better than the chaos that used to rule on the 221 in Barnet back in my day.
Reply ID 62935
27/04/2009 by Dell Boy
quote:
Originally posted by Millie
I think it's more Richard Hale than anything else. My husband employs quite a lot of youngsters who have been taught there and he can't speak highly enough about them. In his opinion RH sends out very polite, well rounded, intelligent young men. Bloody shame I sent my son to Simon Balle.
I'm sorry but I can't agree Simon Balle has some very polite pupils who use the bus when ever I have been on a bus with them. I have witnessed 1 or 2 of the Simon Balle girls being a bit foul mouthed though. [;)]
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