I sometimes read about negative or challenging behaviour of younger people in our city.  Readers may be interested to know there are many hundreds of teenagers who have been spending the past few weeks working on external examinations revision and sitting these examinations. Prior to sitting their papers many have sought help and advice from current and retired secondary school teachers who gladly give their time without payment.  These students are the ones who eventually become our engineers, doctors, architects, lawyers, and so on.  ‘Letting off steam’ after the final examination paper is fine provided no harm is done to persons, animals and property. 

Craig McFarlane, Pāpāmoa.