The boys at Barry had been called to account for their part in lunchtime incidents on which pupils smashed 17 windows while unsupervised by teachers. Mt Teiffon Phillips, the headmaster, described the pupils as mischievous rather than vicious.
A third-form pupil waiting reluctantly for his encounter said: “Some other boys started throwing stone and we just followed them. It’s over not having any dinner.”
In fact the school has been supplying dinners almost normally. The pupil was ignorant of the issues involved and could not name the teachers’ unions that were taking sanctions.
Outside the school, another pupil, who also refused to be named, said: “We don’t like school, and it’s nice to run around”.