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to make sure you go to school, … 290 00:25:13,996 --> 00:25:16,201 … or he tells the appropriate authority. 291 00:25:16,287 --> 00:25:18,326 And that spells trouble! 292 00:25:19,246 --> 00:25:21,996 Now, at this point, a lot of kids get a bit of sense. 293 00:25:22,079 --> 00:25:26,287 They get themselves together, they get back to school, they listen. 294 00:25:26,371 --> 00:25:28,409 But you didn't listen, did you? 295 00:25:28,496 --> 00:25:32,953 The education welfare officer visits four, five, six, even seven times, … 296 00:25:33,037 --> 00:25:35,408 … tries to help, discover the problem. 297 00:25:35,496 --> 00:25:40,237 A lot of time and expense — and all because <i>you</i> don't want to go to school! 298 00:25:41,579 --> 00:25:45,159 The EWO reaches his limit, so he sends your parents a letter… 299 00:25:45,246 --> 00:25:48,577 … threatening to take you to court for non-attendance, … 300 00:25:48,662 --> 00:25:51,496 … but that does nothing — absolutely nothing. 301 00:25:51,579 --> 00:25:53,736 So there's a summons. 302 00:25:53,829 --> 00:25:58,369 And you go for the very first time to court. Your debut! 303 00:25:58,871 --> 00:26:02,154 First appearance — send him home for a test attendance, … 304 00:26:02,246 --> 00:26:04,451 … for whatever good that'll do! 305 00:26:04,537 --> 00:26:07,489 You're supposed to go to school for 21 days straight, … 306 00:26:07,579 --> 00:26:11,444 … but you foul up after the third or fourth day and back you go again. 307 00:26:11,537 --> 00:26:14,240 So… One, two, three, four, five, … 308 00:26:14,329 --> 00:26:16,368 … six breaks. 309 00:26:16,454 --> 00:26:20,319 Six chances to get yourself straight, get your arse back into school, … 310 00:26:20,412 --> 00:26:22,451 … and one, two, three, four, five, … 311 00:26:22,537 --> 00:26:24,743 … six times you've blown it. 312 00:26:25,371 --> 00:26:28,156 - Now, am I not right? - Yeah. 313 00:26:28,246 --> 00:26:32,951 But you weren't just bunking off. You had to do summat with all that free time. 314 00:26:33,037 --> 00:26:35,076 So you did a bit of thieving. 315 00:26:35,162 --> 00:26:39,287 First two or three times you get caught, you get taken down the nick… 316 00:26:39,371 --> 00:26:42,405 … and some policeman tells you off, shouts at you. 317 00:26:42,496 --> 00:26:47,450 Next time you get a caution — this time a sergeant in full uniform shouts at you. 318 00:26:47,537 --> 00:26:51,153 But that doesn't make a damn bit of difference, you're deaf to reason. 319 00:26:51,246 --> 00:26:54,612 You go on nicking and making a bloody nuisance of yourself… 320 00:26:54,704 --> 00:26:57,489 … when you should be here, learning summat useful! 321 00:26:57,579 --> 00:27:01,656 But it's burglary, shoplifting, TDA — touching the dog's arse, … 322 00:27:01,746 --> 00:27:05,278 … taking and driving away — and back you go to court. 323 00:27:06,204 --> 00:27:08,243 They're getting to know you now, … 324 00:27:08,329 --> 00:27:11,861 … so you get fined, or sent to the police attendance centre. 325 00:27:11,954 --> 00:27:14,325 Kept off the streets all day Saturday, … 326 00:27:14,412 --> 00:27:18,786 … made to scrub floors when you could be watching West Ham lose at home. 327 00:27:18,871 --> 00:27:21,704 The magistrates don't know what to do with you. 328 00:27:21,787 --> 00:27:24,407 They're all greengrocers and shopkeepers. 329 00:27:24,496 --> 00:27:27,162 So… they send you here to us… 330 00:27:28,287 --> 00:27:30,611 … for… assessment. 331 00:27:35,329 --> 00:27:37,534 So, what are we going to do with you? 332 00:27:38,787 --> 00:27:41,656 - We could recommend you go home, … - What home? 333 00:27:41,746 --> 00:27:45,657 … but they won't have you. So how are we going to get rid of you? 334 00:27:46,371 --> 00:27:50,200 Foster parents? Never. Children's home? A joke. 335 00:27:50,829 --> 00:27:53,863 CHE, detention centre, borstal. 336 00:27:53,954 --> 00:27:57,486 Well, a pity about CHE, Community Home with Education, … 337 00:27:57,579 --> 00:28:02,533 … appealing both to your intellectual brilliance and your public spirit. 338 00:28:02,621 --> 00:28:05,371 What used to be called an approved school, a CHE. 339 00:28:05,454 --> 00:28:07,576 You could have been king of the Mafia! 340 00:28:07,662 --> 00:28:11,278 Lots of lick-my-arse power trips around vicious 15-year-olds, … 341 00:28:11,371 --> 00:28:13,860 … and you've just turned 16! Bad luck. 342 00:28:13,954 --> 00:28:15,993 Not much left to bring you in line. 343 00:28:16,079 --> 00:28:19,695 Short, sharp shock at the local detention centre, or borstal! 344 00:28:20,954 --> 00:28:24,534 Two simple lessons you'll have to learn, DC or borstal. 345 00:28:24,621 --> 00:28:27,371 One — discipline, two — respect for authority. 346 00:28:27,454 --> 00:28:30,868 You're gonna have to learn it, so you might as well learn it now. 347 00:28:31,579 --> 00:28:36,617 This is an open invitation to you to cooperate, Trevor. For your own good. 348 00:28:38,204 --> 00:28:41,571 DC — s