A sign on the notice board at Plymtree Primary said the activity was "not safe and it causes too much bad feeling". Head teacher Pat Fay said it was important pupils had a "caring" attitude, but those standards had declined during the World Cup. "Children watched their heroes on TV, then copied the fouling, shirt-pulling and cheating," she said. "They saw famous players behaving badly and, in the playground, thought it was okay to kick another player or grab their jumper and pull them over." Is this what they meant by the World Cup legacy?
Young people are set to take over parliament after MPs voted to allow the UK Youth Parliament to debate in the House of Commons chamber regularly. But not all were in favour.
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