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minervasoloMy sister has a friend who recently turned sixten. Yesterday she told my sister that she was going to run away from home with a guy she met online.
Hands up who thinks that is a smart idea.
Thought so. But the idiocy continues to spread.
So, my sister tells her headteacher. Despite the fact that the girl's mother works just down the road, and would have come and picked her up immediately, the teacher rings a social worker and tells her to take the girl to her uncle's house until her father got home.
Fair enough, but wouldn't most people at least attempt to get hold of the parents first? I assume he called the father, who worked fiar distance away, but wouldn't you call both parents if they didn't work together?
Yep, again not the brightest idea. My sister wants to move for him being fired on the grounds that he's unfit to teach. This isn't the first time he's said/done something that a teacher really shouldn't say/do.
Anyway, this is the bit with the real stupidity. The social worker takes the girl to a train station. Girl presumably suggested something like 'I'll walk from here'. Social worker lets girl get out and go to station.
Bangs head against wall. Idiot idiot idiot social worker.
Girl meets man at station, they get on train together and they're gone.
Because she's sixteen the police can't officially start a search. They're trying to work out how long she's been tlaking to this guy, because it certainly started long before she turned sixteen.
So, if anyone sees a girl who looks about sixteen, with ginger curly hair, a bit chubby, and who is prone to BO (you can guess what kind of relationship she and my sister had, can't you?) with a man of about 22, it could be her. Her name is Sarah. I have no idea what you would do if it was her, but it's worth keeping an eye out, just in case. The police have spokento hte guy on his mobile a few times, but they can't get through on hers, the call are being diverted.
I can see why she'd want to run away, in some respects. She was petty much universally disliked at shool, and I don't know about her homelife but i don't think she was particularly happy there either. still, after everything you hear about the internet, I honestly didn't think there wree any teenagers left who were that stupid. I suppose it's like those young girls who want to get pregnant becuase they want something that will always love them, and manage to completely overlook the fact that babies don't ove you, you have to love them constantly and feed them and clean them and there isn't an off switch for when you want to take a bath or a nap or go shopping.
It's like the Darwin Awards, I s'pose.
Hands up who thinks that is a smart idea.
Thought so. But the idiocy continues to spread.
So, my sister tells her headteacher. Despite the fact that the girl's mother works just down the road, and would have come and picked her up immediately, the teacher rings a social worker and tells her to take the girl to her uncle's house until her father got home.
Fair enough, but wouldn't most people at least attempt to get hold of the parents first? I assume he called the father, who worked fiar distance away, but wouldn't you call both parents if they didn't work together?
Yep, again not the brightest idea. My sister wants to move for him being fired on the grounds that he's unfit to teach. This isn't the first time he's said/done something that a teacher really shouldn't say/do.
Anyway, this is the bit with the real stupidity. The social worker takes the girl to a train station. Girl presumably suggested something like 'I'll walk from here'. Social worker lets girl get out and go to station.
Bangs head against wall. Idiot idiot idiot social worker.
Girl meets man at station, they get on train together and they're gone.
Because she's sixteen the police can't officially start a search. They're trying to work out how long she's been tlaking to this guy, because it certainly started long before she turned sixteen.
So, if anyone sees a girl who looks about sixteen, with ginger curly hair, a bit chubby, and who is prone to BO (you can guess what kind of relationship she and my sister had, can't you?) with a man of about 22, it could be her. Her name is Sarah. I have no idea what you would do if it was her, but it's worth keeping an eye out, just in case. The police have spokento hte guy on his mobile a few times, but they can't get through on hers, the call are being diverted.
I can see why she'd want to run away, in some respects. She was petty much universally disliked at shool, and I don't know about her homelife but i don't think she was particularly happy there either. still, after everything you hear about the internet, I honestly didn't think there wree any teenagers left who were that stupid. I suppose it's like those young girls who want to get pregnant becuase they want something that will always love them, and manage to completely overlook the fact that babies don't ove you, you have to love them constantly and feed them and clean them and there isn't an off switch for when you want to take a bath or a nap or go shopping.
It's like the Darwin Awards, I s'pose.
