Are your secondary school DCs allowed out of school unsupervised at lunchtime?

[miljee]

Do people consider this an issue? I can't remember ANY of us being allowed out of my school except the 6th formers! So I'm always a bit surprised to see gangs of youths wandering the streets, hanging around outside the Co-op etc in the locals comprehensives uniforms. What about the legals? WHO exactly is responsible for these sometimes 11 year olds between 12.30 and 1.30?

Is it the sort of question one asks about when choosing a secondary? Or is it so common you'd be considered Victorian for even caring?

the kids who go home at luch time have a special pass

Only children who go home for lunch are allowed out and they have to have a pass.

When I was at secondary (in the 70's) we were allowed out and most of us went to the chippy to spend our lunch money. Some of us - not me of course - never went back for the afternoon session. I know there was often trouble in the local shops and if groups of kids met up with local 'rival' schools. There were 3 schools within a 2 mile radius.

yep, all teh schools round about me let the pupils out to roam the town for lunch. As soon as they start high school. I did it myself.

I used to think it was ok. However, I am really fed up with the litter they drop and I have changed my view on this issue recently. I think they should stay on school premises, till 5th year.

Also, the shite the kids eat is pretty depressing. I object to businesses making money from selling crap food to young people.

We don't have any choice. Ours is a huge school (1800), and when it was built as a new school about 7 years ago, the canten is too small to get them all through.

Y7-9, are allowed home for dinner if they have a pass. Y10-13 are allowed out at dinnertime if they have parental permission. However, the main problem is we cannot gt lunch time supervisors, AND as the school is massive, the kids can get out easily, it is impossible to patrol all the boundaries. Wnen it was built, a request for a wall was put in, to contain them . It cost too much, so now there isn't even a fence, just open land.

So it.s not always th ethos of the school, some of us don't have much choice.

Our school only allows 6th formers out at lunchtime, and has lunchtime supervisors and prefects patrolling the exits.

To be honest, lunchtime is so short there isn't a wide range of places anyone could get to in that time.

The school has lots of lunchtime clubs and has also spent lots of money on making the outside areas nicer places to spend lunchtime in. So those who don't 'do' clubs or who don't kick a ball around at lunchtimes still have nice surroundings to hang around with their friends.

I think it's the right balance. You can't have thousands of kids roaming around at lunchtime - our school has 1700+ students, and the school literally next door has 1500-1600 so it would be a nightmare if they were all allowed off site.

My DS's school is in the High Street and they are allowed out but not allowed into certain shops.
The boys are expected to behave at all times and do so.
My DS nips back here sometimes as we are just around the corner. He grabs some lunch when he says that lunch queue was too big but it turns out sometimes he is having lunch at school and then nipping home too

My sons' school don't allow children off the premises at lunchtime.

The one I attended did, and I used to go home at lunchtime, but these days a lot of the children congregate outside the local chippy, often with fags.

We don't let any of them off the premises. We used to just let Yr 11 but the dinner ladies had lots of problems with Yr 10s insisting they were Yr 11 etc, so it's easier to keep them all in!

I wouldn't want my children to go to a school that let them out tbh.

They behave at our school as well, after all some of them are 15 and 16. Quite old enough to be let out on their own I would think

Only 6th form at DSs school-which is how it should be IMO.

from yr 10 with parental permission

Year 10 and 11 at our school. They have passes with their photo which are checked at the gate. Being allowed out is a privilege so any misbehaviour and passes are removed. We have very few complaints from local people. How do we expect children to behave when we don't give them any responsibility?