School arranges morning-after pills for girls of 14 after end-of-term party
descends into drunken orgy
By JAMES TOZER
Daily Mail
Last updated at 09:35am on 22nd March 2008
Teachers had to arrange morning-after pills for girls as young as 14 after
a
class party degenerated into an orgy of binge-drinking, drugtaking and
underage ***.
The school said yesterday that "a disturbingly high" number of pupils had
unprotected *** while drunk as up to 200 teenagers ran riot at a village
hall.
In stark terms, it warned parents of the risk of pregnancy and
***ually-transmitted disease, telling them: "Assume the worst."
Parish councillors found evidence of drug use, bloodstains and wrecked
equipment at the village hall
During the unsupervised party the hall was badly damaged and nearby
residents were horrified when the revellers spilled out into the street,
among them a boy stripped to his boxer shorts and scantily-clad girls.
The local pub landlord said he was threatened when he refused to sell them
alcohol and cigarettes.
It went so far out of control that the school has taken the dramatic step
of
writing to all parents graphically describing what went on.
The party was held at the village institute in Wray, on the edge of the
Forest of Bowland in Lanca****re, by Year 11 pupils from Queen Elizabeth
School in nearby Kirkby Lonsdale.
Parents and hall officials are believed to have been told there would be
adult supervision, but the teenagers had apparently forged signatures.
A number of girls from Queen Elizabeth School in Kirkby Lonsdale had
drunken
***, according to letters sent to parents
After complaints from villagers, the comprehensive's deputy head, Alison
Hughes, wrote to parents in stark terms.
Along with "significant and harmful quantities" of drink, the children had
also taken illegal drugs.
Mrs Hughes added that underage *** among the partygoers - aged between 14
and 16 - had been widespread and warned that some of them may be at risk
of
pregnancy or ***ually-transmitted diseases.
She said most of the girls who had unprotected *** "were too drunk to be
in
control of themselves. The risks are real. Assume the worst." The girls
were
referred for ***ual health care.
Mrs Hughes also re****ted criminal-damage to the hall and said one boy
"could
have died" as a result of the cocktail of drink and drugs he apparently
unwittingly consumed.
Villagers said some of the children tried to break into the ambulance that
took him to hospital.
The deputy head said many parents wrongly assumed that because the party
was
being held at a village hall, there would be a responsible adult involved,
and urged them to be more careful in future.
"This is the underside of teenage life in this area," she added. Around 70
children from the school are thought to have been among the estimated 200
party-goers.
The event is thought to have been organised by two friends who sold
tickets
to classmates, many of whom passed the details to others.
Neil Taplin, landlord of the George and Dragon, said youths had urinated
against his pub's walls and sworn when he refused to serve them alcohol
and
cigarettes.
Although an ambulance crew attended, no calls were apparently made to
police.
Locals who went to clean up said they found broken glass, bloodstains and
evidence of drug-taking. A new sink had been smashed.
Sue Rowland, who chairs the village institute committee, said the pupils
had
forged adults' signatures, leading them to believe it would be a
supervised
event.
She added: "We haven't received an apology from any of the teenagers."
It is not the first time children from the school have been accused of
running riot. In December 2006 there were tales of drunkenness, damage and
*** after a group booked out the village institute in Kirkby Lonsdale
itself.
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