Minority of pupils are causing misery

the year and the restricted bin collections was put in place they were collected as per the revised schedule, so I have no idea what they are doing now!

MICHAEL HODGES

Greenways Littlewick Green

Since the return to school, local residents living in close proximity to Cox Green Secondary School are experiencing an upsurge of serious problems from a minority of pupils.

Most of the youngsters at the school are well-behaved young people, however, there is a small hard-core element, seemingly determined to create mayhem and misery at every opportunity.

Their behaviour unfairly tarnishes the good reputation of the school.

Encroaching onto private property, missiles thrown, verbal abuse, are all now commonplace.

An elderly lady, who lives alone, informs me that because of her past experience of serious problems she is now too afraid to go into her front garden during certain times of the day.

The nub of the problem is the very early arrival of pupils on school coaches. Having been dropped-off on school premises, they are not being contained there.

In the current crisis, across the country, there are college students being kept in their halls of residence while at the same time we have Cox Green pupils let loose onto the streets for up to an hour with no adherence to any sort of ‘social distancing’.

The good work of the staff in preparing a COVID-free, safe environment within the school is immediately destroyed by the behaviour of pupils outside the school.

When coaches deliver pupils onto school property then there is surely a duty of care placed on the school to contain them there - especially during these times.

Until this can be legally clarified, at the very least, two or three key look-out places in the immediate area need to be staffed in order to monitor movement between the school and the Wessex Way shops.

This needs to be done from the arrival of the first coach until they are all safely inside the school to start their day.

We are perilously close to a major incident in this small corner of Maidenhead unless something along these lines is immediately implemented.

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together then we can stop this wave of violence which has been getting progressively worse over the last few years.

We need politicians, police and the rest of society to remember these crimes are not victimless.

They affect real people.

MARK SMITH Chief Executive Southern Co-op