One school invested in a week-long outdoor activities programme just to prepare a group of pupils for their alternative curriculum experience. I arrived in the early evening, just as half a dozen lads were meant to be embarking on an orienteering challenge. The instructors were admiring the sunset. The lads were static on a picnic bench, looking vacantly at a large-scale map. The instructors told them cursorily to "get on with it". One of the lads, with spiky peroxide hair, commented that he didn't know how to read a map, while another remarked sarcastically that this was not surprising, as he couldn't read at all.
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