Disgusted with unsupervised school kids

I must say never, ever did I think that I would have been attacked by young children in Cyprus and especially in the lovely village of Omodhos, a place my husband and I visit over and over again.

We made a stopover using the public toilets in the village on November 4 at 11-45am with the  intention of visiting the village.

There was a school out for the morning and they were making a great deal of noise but that didn’t bother me until I went to use the toilet. There were two girls of around nine or ten years olds standing at the basins. As I walked in one thrust a toy in my face and when I then came out to wash my hands both set about me – one from the front and the other from behind.

I quickly told my husband and we went looking for the teachers but they were nowhere to be found. I also spoke with a coach driver who tried to help but they had run into the crowd and I really couldn’t identify them at that point. The driver said this was normal bad behaviour.

What concerned me  was the fact that there was no supervision and they were all running wild doing what they wanted, even pulling at trees, dropping litter and shouting.

These children know who they are and if their parents don’t correct them for hitting a 60-year-old well I dread to think what lies ahead for them.

B Morrison Scotland and Cyprus

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