British schools take on gambling addiction

Specialists are warning that the online and offline gambling addiction among young people in the United Kingdom is increasing. Due to this, some schools are taking additional step in order to prevent it. At least two private schools in the UK have already started to provide their pupils with extra classes concentrating on the hazards that could be caused by obsessive gambling. Harlow School, based in Middlesex, and King’s College School in south London are helping their young students to avoid addiction to gambling.
At King’s College School, suspicion occurred when several pupils start demonstrating very strange behavior, being unprepared and distracted during school time. It appeared that those students were gaming on the Internet until the very late hours. After this incident, the school, which already offered a gambling educational program, went made a next step in order to bring a recovered obsessive gambler to the class.
Harlow School, which is a boarding school, is not conscious of similar incidents taking place with their students, due to the fact that it is easier for them to observe and control the Internet activities of their pupils, than the parents at home with their children. This did not improve the school board of the Middlesex school and they are now launching their own program to boost gambling awareness.
It is expected within the next several years that more and more schools will introduce such programs, or renew the existing ones in order to cover the potential hazards of Internet gambling and betting.