It wouldn't surprise me if Phil was kept on as an insurance policy from now on.

"Ava Sambora ‏@avasamboraxxoo 2h

Community Service all day"

Hmmmm....... could be reason why Richie's had to hang back. What could Ava have done to result in her doing Community Service????

Aaaaand let the conspiracy theories commence. This thread just keeps on giving..

Some schools simply require community service to show kids what goes on in the world. One of the schools that my kids went to required it - it wasn't because they were paying back for causing problems.

'Community Service' in the US doesn't mean the same as it does here.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_service

Ah Kathleen got there before me.

A kit of school's require kids to do a certain amount of charity work/community service, etc.

Gotcha - kind of thing that wouldn't hurt for 75% of the kids in the UK to do!!!

I touched on this earlier- it would be foolish to send him packing. I'd actually hope he'd be treated a little better than "thanks for bailing us out the shit, but he's back so see ya." I'd keep him around as a warning, Richie might up his game if there's someone waiting in the wings.

I wish the schools around here required community service. It might straighten out some of these hoodlums that I have to do behavior plans on. Not sure how I got stuck with that job. I can't fix crazy.