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JCP making it madatory to work full-time

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  • neverdespairgirl
    neverdespairgirl Posts: 16,501 Forumite
    chris1973 wrote: »

    I would imagine it would quite uncool (and completely horrifying) for any teenager these days to be commanded to go directly home from School to Mummy, and I imagine in reality very few do, unless its to get changed in order to go straight out to join their mates again.

    Its no longer the 1930's.....

    In the 1990s, my sisters and I were expected to leave school and go straight home, unless we had a particular activity or arrangement with a particular friend to visit a specified place.

    I didn't socialise after school in pubs / clubs / street corners, ever, apart from on Friday nights once I got to the Sixth Form.

    This was still true in the 2000s, for my younger sister and brother.
    ...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.
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