Full of " it "

You see the thing about teenagers is that they’re full of it, aren’t they?

We should know we all used to be one once and let’s face it when we look back on ourselves and the way we acted at that age even we cringe about some of the things we got up to, said and did.

It doesn’t take long across the everyday grapevine, let alone any social network, for something said in jest and japery to be passed along like Chinese whispers and turned into something that sounds much worse than it actually is, so it’s probably a little understandable that the head of Chatham grammar for girls reacted in the way she did to rumours of year 11 pupils coming in on their last day dressed as militants and letting off fireworks.

However had she and the staff taken a moment to remember what it was like to be a teenager, i think they might have realised what they were hearing was quite highly likely to be wildly exaggerated.