Mum’s anger as school confiscates 14-year-old son’s e-cig

[hbk4894]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/6657369/Fuming-Mums-anger-as-school-confiscate-14-year-old-sons-e-cig.html?CMP=spklr-_-S9SunSocial-_-FBPAGE-_-TheSun-thesun-_-20150924-_-News-_-240935283

in your opinion , did the school make the right call?

[Niamh.]

Well, considering you have to be over 18 to use one then yes absolutely

[Crimson Dynamo]

Where do i start

[Kizzy]

Yes.

[Xtopher]

God yes, I didn't even start smoking until 18.

[Tom4784]

The school's in the right. Plenty of people have quit smoking without the use of E-Cigs so that's not an excuse.

[Niamh.]

God yes, I didn't even start smoking until 18.

Really? You'd think you'd have enough sense by then to not start smoking, my excuse is that I was young and stupid :laugh:

[arista]

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no he should not smoke at 14

[Crimson Dynamo]

Do i take it his father is nowhere to be seen?

[Jessica.]

Do i take it his father is nowhere to be seen?

It says in the article that his father died when he was 12. :shrug:

[Crimson Dynamo]

It says in the article that his father died when he was 12. :shrug:

i wonder if it was of lung cancer

[Kizzy]

Got the branding in the shot too....was this a news story or a marketing ploy?

[arista]

Got the branding in the shot too....was this a news story or a marketing ploy?


Both

[RichardG]

Good, surely it is not appropriate to be smoking anything in school? :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

I think the main issue here is the silly woman thinking he cannot stop, take away all his bloody money and belt his bloody ears you silly cow

jesus

[lostalex]

this mom should be in jail. this might be the chaviest thing i've ever heard of. this belongs on jeremy kyle, he'd sort it out.

[Livia]

Mother of the Year.

[bots]

there are plenty of nicotine replacement therapies available sanctioned by Doctors and available via prescription if the child did indeed have a problem. I call bollocks on the whole story and see it as an advertising stunt too.

[Northern Monkey]

I would've been well pissed if the teachers had confiscated my joint at school:laugh:
We used to roll up in class and smoke weed at break time.lol.
If e-cigs are the worst thing kids are doing these days then things are definately improving.
I think the school should've given the devise to the parent to decide what to do with it.
The school has no right to keep something they did'nt pay for.

[Ashley.]

Is it even worth debating this though tbh

Of course the school was in the right. And there are 14-year olds these days doing much worse, too!

Bring back the ****ing cane

[lostalex]

Is it even worth debating this though tbh

Of course the school was in the right. And there are 14-year olds these days doing much worse, too!

Bring back the ****ing cane

anyone that would use a cane on a 14 y/o should also be put in jail. use a cane on the ****ing parents if you are gonna use a cane on anyone.

[Kizzy]

I would've been well pissed if the teachers had confiscated my joint at school:laugh:
We used to roll up in class and smoke weed at break time.lol.
If e-cigs are the worst thing kids are doing these days then things are definately improving.
I think the school should've given the devise to the parent to decide what to do with it.
The school has no right to keep something they did'nt pay for.

Well well... another surprise for me that you who I had down as rather more straight laced NM. People keep shocking me with their wild child stories :laugh:

[Crimson Dynamo]

If he was my lad I would have got him smoking a pipe, like a man and not some girls e-cig thing

A bulldog comoy with some lovely 1-Q in it and he would have been quite happy

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[kirklancaster]

Is it even worth debating this though tbh

Of course the school was in the right. And there are 14-year olds these days doing much worse, too!

Bring back the ****ing cane

:clap1::clap1::clap1:

[Ashley.]

anyone that would use a cane on a 14 y/o should also be put in jail. use a cane on the ****ing parents if you are gonna use a cane on anyone.

Gosh, you'd have hated life 20 years ago then.

[Niamh.]

Gosh, you'd have hated life 20 years ago then.

20 years ago? A bit longer than that I think :laugh: I was in school more than 20 years ago and no teachers hit kids

[Ashley.]

20 years ago? A bit longer than that I think :laugh: I was in school more than 20 years ago and no teachers hit kids

I just realised 20 years ago was 1995 :umm2:

Where did the time go?!?!?!?!

[kirklancaster]

20 years ago? A bit longer than that I think :laugh: I was in school more than 20 years ago and no teachers hit kids

You went to a 'nice' school Niamh. :laugh:

[Niamh.]

You went to a 'nice' school Niamh. :laugh:

I didn't at all, I went to a pretty rough school teachers didn't hit kids when I was at school, they would have been sued and fired same as today. Hitting kids in school was more my parents generation which was alot longer than 20 years ago

[Crimson Dynamo]

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We got belted at school with a good thick Lochgelly Tawse. 6 of that on the hands hurt like a bastard

[Northern Monkey]

I didn't at all, I went to a pretty rough school teachers didn't hit kids when I was at school, they would have been sued and fired same as today. Hitting kids in school was more my parents generation which was alot longer than 20 years ago

At our school around 20 years ago.A lad in my class put a drawing pin on the supply teachers chair,The teacher made him sit on it.No lie.

[Niamh.]

At our school around 20 years ago.A lad in my class put a drawing pin on the supply teachers chair,The teacher made him sit on it.No lie.

Really? No way would anything like that have happened when I was in school and it was more than 20 years ago

[Northern Monkey]

Well well... another surprise for me that you who I had down as rather more straight laced NM. People keep shocking me with their wild child stories :laugh:

Just shows.Can't really tell anything about people from forum posts.Some people can be quite intelligent and also a party animal:laugh:

[kirklancaster]

I didn't at all, I went to a pretty rough school teachers didn't hit kids when I was at school, they would have been sued and fired same as today. Hitting kids in school was more my parents generation which was alot longer than 20 years ago

Yeah, I was joking. I went to school a long time ago and the cane was normal for misbehaving - pretty bad incidents though admittedly. For persistent offenders, the old headmaster personally meted out punishment with a huge size 12 tennis shoe which he dubbed 'Big Bertha' after a World War 2 French Field Gun, I believe.

[Northern Monkey]

Really? No way would anything like that have happened when I was in school and it was more than 20 years agoYeah for real.We did'nt used to get beaten with canes though:laugh:

[Kizzy]

Just shows.Can't really tell anything about people from forum posts.Some people can be quite intelligent and also a party animal:laugh:

Intelligent people smoking drugs, is that an oxymoron? :laugh:

[Northern Monkey]

Intelligent people smoking drugs, is that an oxymoron? :laugh:

It's some kind of moron:laugh:
Disclaimer:I have'nt touched any whacky baccy for a long time when i was a yoof.

[bots]

Yeah, I was joking. I went to school a long time ago and the cane was normal for misbehaving - pretty bad incidents though admittedly. For persistent offenders, the old headmaster personally meted out punishment with a huge size 12 tennis shoe which he dubbed 'Big Bertha' after a World War 2 French Field Gun, I believe.

i once got the belt 12 times in 1 day ... teachers were sadistic so and so's in my day :D

[Crimson Dynamo]

Once in primary :umm2: i was to get the belt and the teacher went to another class to get it thinking it was there, whilst she was gone my pal stephen got the belt from his drawer and chucked it up on a cupboard, when the (woman) teacher came back muttering and looked her drawer inside out before saying that I was lucky she could not find it and i got off

:hee:

[DemolitionRed]

Once in primary :umm2: i was to get the belt and the teacher went to another class to get it thinking it was there, whilst she was gone my pal stephen got the belt from his drawer and chucked it up on a cupboard, when the (woman) teacher came back muttering and looked her drawer inside out before saying that I was lucky she could not find it and i got off

:hee:

OMG you got the belt at PRIMARY :bawling:

[kirklancaster]

i once got the belt 12 times in 1 day ... teachers were sadistic so and so's in my day :D

All that discipline made you the person you are now. :laugh:

[kirklancaster]

Once in primary :umm2: i was to get the belt and the teacher went to another class to get it thinking it was there, whilst she was gone my pal stephen got the belt from his drawer and chucked it up on a cupboard, when the (woman) teacher came back muttering and looked her drawer inside out before saying that I was lucky she could not find it and i got off

:hee:

:laugh: I'm pondering just what you did to deserve the belt in Primary School?

Come on, I'm dying to know.

[kirklancaster]

I was a little angel until Grammar school, where I got plenty of cane and Big Bertha.

My friend and I once 'twagged off' school with our girlfriends who were in our class and spent a beautiful Summer's day on 'Lover's Hill' a local beauty spot. The next day all four of us were summoned to the headmaster's office and 'sentenced to 6 strokes of the cane for us boys and 3 for each girl - I kid you not. After a bit of quick thinking, I said: "Please Sir, I would like for us boys to receive the girl's punishment in addition to our own because it was our fault that they are here - We talked them into playing truant against their wishes".

It worked a treat on the 'Stiff upper lip, Old Fashioned' head, and he actually commended me for my chivalry, dismissed the girls without punishment and reduced our sentence to just 3 strokes each. It still hurt like hell though. :laugh:

[bots]

:laugh: I'm pondering just what you did to deserve the belt in Primary School?

Come on, I'm dying to know.

if i remember correctly, I got 3 of the belt at primary for not learning a chapter of the bible off by heart overnight :shocked:

[kirklancaster]

if i remember correctly, I got 3 of the belt at primary for not learning a chapter of the bible off by heart overnight :shocked:

:laugh: That's beyond cruel... But don't get LT started BitOnTheSlide. :hehe:

[Kizzy]

if i remember correctly, I got 3 of the belt at primary for not learning a chapter of the bible off by heart overnight :shocked:

Catholic school by any chance, going a bit off topic mind here isn't it mind?
If this woman had come into my school saying such things she would've been laughed out the door. There would've been no question of pandering to his 'needs' and 'wants'.
As you can't buy ciggies underage I hope whoever is providing him is fined.

[Jay.]

i agree

they are disgusting

[DemolitionRed]

All that discipline made you the person you are now. :laugh:

A masochist? :hehe:

[Black Dagger]

Stupid bitch!!

[Ashley.]

I wish I could relate with you lot but I narrowly avoided the cane days. :hee:

[kirklancaster]

Stupid bitch!!

:laugh:

[DemolitionRed]

Stupid bitch!!

If that was aimed at me, just say so, so that I can report you.

[DemolitionRed]

:laugh:

:sleep:

[Niamh.]

If that was aimed at me, just say so, so that I can report you.

I took it that he was talking about the mother of the kid in the article

[jennyjuniper]

Although the lad shouldn't even be smoking at that age, it shouldn't be a problem to go all day without a fag. I started at 16 and up until my twenties I could easily do without a fag. What a 'mother' though.

[DemolitionRed]

I took it that he was talking about the mother of the kid in the article

Thanks, I think Luke thought the same as me hence his giggle...easy mistake :shrug:

[Jason.]

In relation to the cane talk a few pages back. Corporal Punishment was abolished in 1987. So more like 30 years rather than 20.

[DemolitionRed]

Cigarettes are for people 18 years and over. E-cigs/vape pens are for people 18 years and over. Alcohol is for people 18 years and over. There has to be zero tolerance for any of these things used within a school environment.

[kirklancaster]

I took it that he was talking about the mother of the kid in the article

And so did I Niamh.

[DemolitionRed]

Says the man who's as predictable as rain on a bank holiday Monday!

[Johnnyuk123]

What next? Allow them to have sex during playtime? It's all getting ridiculous!

[Johnnyuk123]

Schools should do this.
Ban mobile phones and other devices.
Ban smoking. Ban foul language.
Teach kids the meaning of the word respect and instill the notion that when in school your life is in the hands of the school with no parental interference at all and tell them that threatening to call child line in class to whinge about teachers will only get back to those said teachers and your child will get detention for a year for trying to play the system.
Also bring back the cane.

[kirklancaster]

Schools should do this.
Ban mobile phones and other devices.
Ban smoking. Ban foul language.
Teach kids the meaning of the word respect and instill the notion that when in school your life is in the hands of the school with no parental interference at all and tell them that threatening to call child line in class to whinge about teachers will only get back to those said teachers and your child will get detention for a year for trying to play the system.
Also bring back the cane.

I agree that we cannot delegate responsibility for children's care to schools for 8 hours per day, without also sanctioning authority to them. For that 8 hours or so teachers are 'Parents By Proxy.

[Ashley.]

In relation to the cane talk a few pages back. Corporal Punishment was abolished in 1987. So more like 30 years rather than 20.

I know I know I know I thought 20 years ago sounded like a good estimate :(

[Ammi]

Schools should do this.
Ban mobile phones and other devices.
Ban smoking. Ban foul language.
Teach kids the meaning of the word respect and instill the notion that when in school your life is in the hands of the school with no parental interference at all and tell them that threatening to call child line in class to whinge about teachers will only get back to those said teachers and your child will get detention for a year for trying to play the system.


Also bring back the cane.


...really no Johnny and really no no no...

[arista]

"Also bring back the cane. "

Yes With Females using them.

[user104658]

Schools should do this.
Ban mobile phones and other devices.
Ban smoking. Ban foul language.
Teach kids the meaning of the word respect and instill the notion that when in school your life is in the hands of the school with no parental interference at all and tell them that threatening to call child line in class to whinge about teachers will only get back to those said teachers and your child will get detention for a year for trying to play the system.
Also bring back the cane.
Yeeeaah... So... Does me breaking a cane across someone's throat if they use one to hit my daughter count as "parental interference"?

[Ammi]

"Also bring back the cane. "

Yes With Females using them.

..only those hot/fit ones you like though Arista of course...

[kirklancaster]

"Also bring back the cane. "

Yes With Females using them.

Yes, but only stunningly beautiful nymphomaniac ones who are butt naked and have £20 million in the bank which they will sign over to you once they have shagged your brains out in more positions and ways than The Karma Sutra.

If we are going to dream and fantasise Arista - let's go the whole 9 yards. :laugh::laugh::laugh:

[kirklancaster]

..only those hot/fit ones you like though Arista of course...

:laugh: Sorry Princess - You posted while I was typing. 'Great Minds' though Uh? :hehe:

[y.winter]

All I can see is him jumping in the school corridor all jolly singing "look at me! I'm in the papers! look at me posing with my e-cig!".
No wonder he smokes at 14.
Pathetic. :facepalm:

[DemolitionRed]

3216 For Arista!