"We are very slack with our moral codes for children these days," the 64-year-old actress told the magazine. "Nowadays, children find it laughably amusing to shoplift and steal. We allow them to bunk off school and bring in sick notes." Education welfare teams might dispute this thoroughgoing analysis.
Stealing didn't happen when Lumley was at school, apparently. "There was one 'crime' during the whole time I was at school when a fountain pen went missing," she reminisced.
She'd also like to see laptops banned from schools "until you can prove you can add up on your fingers", added Lumley, who went on to bemoan a lack of respect for education in Britain.
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