Risky, illegal behaviour of 14 year olds. Tell the school?

[deelemma]

DD (14) showed me social media photos of some boys in her class smoking dope, messing about on a railway line and doing grafitti. The photos, which are on a private account, are getting a lot of 'likes' from other children the same age. All this has been going on during the holidays. Would you tell the school?

Report to police and railway company as they need to find out how these teenagers are able to get onto the track. There may be a broken fence or something that needs to be made secure.

@HarrietsChariot

Tell them, but they probably won't be interested. Maybe they'll do a discussion on it in assembly but that's about it. Generally teachers don't care what goes on outside of school, or if they do, can't act on it.

What a nasty comment!

I can ABSOLUTELY guarantee that teachers care greatly about the safety of their pupils!!

You are correct about the fact that we cannot 'do anything' about what happens outside of school hours...when parents should be parenting...but we care, and will do our utmost during school hours to instil some understanding of risk and consequences!!