Pupils could take a lesson from their East Lothian counterparts

Oct 16 2008 West Lothian Courier

SOME time ago a reader wrote a letter to the Courier regarding pupils from Whitburn Academy dropping litter on the streets during the lunchtime break.

On Thursday, October 2, I had occasion to visit East Lothian and while travelling through the High Street, Haddington, I noticed numbers of pupils from the local Knox Academy walking about while they took their lunch, obviously bought from local fast food and other shops.

As these groups of pupils finished their food, they all put the empty wrappings in refuse bins along the street.

The pupils all seemed to keep to the footpaths and did not seem to cause any hazard to passing motorists.

A far cry from the next week when I was driving along both East and West Streets in Whitburn on Wednesday, October 8, as Whitburn Academy pupils were having their lunch break.

Food wrappings, plastic spoons etc were being deposited on the footpath and roadway by these pupils.

Some of them also seem to have a death wish by running between parked cars across the streets and narrowly avoiding collision with passing motorists.

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