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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
If he was the violent criminal gang member, as his death suggests, I would have expected his head teacher to have said nothing, in fact if he was a member of an underclass I wouldn't have thought he'd have bothered with school at all, let alone passed exams and tried to get in to collage
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Yes I can see that scenario - "............we approached the head teacher for comment on the student's tragic death and he refused to do so!"
Well I don't know where you live but there are any number of large colleges in this part of London which attract all sorts of people some of whom attend and achieve far more than others. Isn't that one of the reasons HMG would like to raise the school leaving age further still?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/6254833.stm
Sadly, passing some GCSE's doesn't preclude anyone from being in a gang and/or being involved in any amount of serious trouble - in fact, some colleges seem to be centres of such activity for a proportion of their students.
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Originally Posted by bringerofnoise
Music plays a big part (though i use the term music loosely) by promoting gang culture, When i was a teenager music was about having a good time and sexeh women  and so it was, we had a good time and not one person or animal was hurt  |
........and of course the often abusive and aggressive video images which accompany it.