Ian Jelf wrote to uk.transport.london on Fri, 8 Jul 2005:

In message ps
.com, writes
I'll just leave my 5 year old and 8 year old hanging around outside
school until I can get back home on Friday then.
Schools are not going to leave 5 and 8 year olds "hanging around"
outside. I'm pretty sure that *many* parents will have been late picking
up children yesterday.

Indeed, it was one of the things that was announced - that children
would be quite safe at school, doing their normal activities, but would
not be leaving the campus for swimming, etc. I'm quite sure their
teachers would, for once, have been happy to supervise them until the
last child was collected.
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"Mrs Redboots"
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