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Lawyer Maurice Veldman specializes in the tolerance policy of coffee shops and was a number of coffee shop owners at Against schools that would like to settle too close to coffee shops. “This policy is of course ridiculous,” he says.
“They want to get rid of the coffee shops, that’s why they have introduced ridiculous criteria. If you are taking off coffee shops, it does not mean that young people will no longer smoke.”
At the coffee shop that is close to the Vinse School, they rarely say they see a school bag: “High school children almost never come by. We always check IDs at the entrance, so they just don’t succeed,” said an employee of Barney’s coffee shop.
Around the corner of the Vinse School on Palmstraat, the employee of another coffee shop says the same. “We never see high school students here. In addition, they just don’t get in. So I don’t understand the problem like that.”
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Van Hall therefore states that the coffee shop is not a nuisance from the students and vice versa. “As director of a school, I am especially happy that we were able to settle here.”
“Surprise use in high school students is worrying. It is therefore good to try to prevent high school students from coming into contact with coffee shops,” says Egbert de Vries of the High Schools partnership. “But there are of course other reasons that that school has come to be placed there. They have thought about that well and they made that consideration themselves.”