Criticism
In September 2007, six pupils were suspended and one permanently excluded after smoking cannabis at the school. The pupils involved were aged between 11 and 16 and three of them had to be taken to hospital after overdosing on the drug within school grounds. Head teacher Anthony McNamara commented "The matter has been reported to the police and the school is now taking disciplinary action against all the pupils concerned. "
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“I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.”
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