Blog posts in May 2010 
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From drug dealer to head boy (with help from a very inspiring headmistress)
Friday 14 May 2010
Categories: Drugs and Alcohol, Education, Self-esteem
Some things never change including adults’ views of the young. Even Socrates is quoted as saying: “children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.” **
It’s so easy to criticise “the youth of today”; every generation are appalled by how their lack of manners, by how standards of behaviour have declined, by how little respect they show towards their elders who are obviously their betters....