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Originally Posted by angus58

Actually no, it's not true that most 14 year olds do "stuff like that" - there are far more that actually would like the chance to learn something but are prevented from doing so by moronic attention-seeking 14 yr olds, acting like 5year olds.

Everyone I know acted up at that age, not even one person would want to learn at that age. Its all about other stuff that we found more important. I and my friends would never take education seriously at that age and that is the general feeling of the schools around the London area... but there are SOME 14 year olds who would like to study but thats in different areas.

Even an intelligent kid who loved education would at some point during this age misbehave, its puberty. 14 year olds think that everything is more important that education. Thank God I and all i know got our heads together when we reached 16 and all acchieved good grades.

Even some of my teatchers say it. They said to me, they would gladly reject teaching a class of Year 9's (13-14 year olds) but would love to teach 16+.

I was attention seeking at that age and was a chav, its a phase, most get out of it by the time you reach the age of 16.