Police officers were called to the school after a window had been broken and a girl injured by glass. At Huyton, Liverpool, a schoolboy was arrested for alleged breach of the peace when about two hundred pupils demonstrated against the teachers’ sanctions. Stones were thrown at a police car.
At Canvey Island, Essex, council staff were locked in their offices for protection when 300 children attempted to storm the building in protest against meal sanctions imposed by teachers at Furtherwick Park Secondary School.
The pupils demonstrated outside the school and then marched over a mile to the Castle Point District Council offices, where they batter on windows, chanting and shouting. The police marshaled them on to the pavement and they went back to school, singing defiantly.