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Happyman, you raise a very very powerful point about peer pressure. I teach a young lad who is in the Academy at a premiership club and misses school three days a week, I do one hour catch-up lessons. He is a model student, listens well and tries hard in the one to one. I also teach him in class where he is a total birdbrain and an idiot who wants to 'have a laugh' with his mates and does little or no work and compromises eveyone else at the same time. He has to be watched like a hawk as he can be a danger to himself and those around him.
You would not believe the difference.
One boy, two totally different people because of the context. Peer pressure is a very powerful thing at that age. He is 16 and could be on the roads in less than a year, and if the football pays off he'll be in some powerful car.
On his own he'd be sensible and drive carefully, with two or three mates in the car.. I shudder to think.
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