A LOLLIPOP lady is set to be taken off the streets because teenagers are making her life hell.
June Walker, 53, runs a daily gauntlet of foul language, verbal abuse and spitting from secondary school pupils.
The tearaways throw bricks from bus windows, catapult stones and knock panes of glass out of bus shelters.
In the winter, they threw snowballs at Mrs Walker and even rubbed snow in her face.
On the day that Tony Blair announced radical moves to defeat yob culture, it emerged that Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council is considering removing the under-siege lollipop lady because the situation is so bad.
Mrs Walker admits to being terrified as she guides young children safely to Nunthorpe Primary School, near Middlesbrough, and endures a torrent of abuse from older pupils at neighbouring Nunthorpe School on Guisborough Road.
"If they don't injure me they will injure one of the little ones," she said.
"They have no respect for their parents or the teachers, no respect for the school and no respect for me. It can be very frightening."
She added: "Some of them can be very nice but it is when they get into big groups, especially on a Friday night."
Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council, the police and the school say it is a small handful of teenagers causing the problems.
A spokesman for Cleveland Police warned the tearaways that they could face criminal prosecutions.
John Rowling, head teacher at Nunthorpe School, said if the school identified the students, they could face temporary exclusion and staff members were now patrolling the road.
"We would take definitive action and we have great frustration because we want to do something about it," he said. "It is an unfortunate situation."
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