Just out of reach!

There are a row of old apple trees in the school grounds which back onto our garden.
We always "obtain" quite a few each year, unfortunately many of them fall out of reach even though I have devised tools to harvest them!
The previous headteacher used to come and chat and eat the odd apple.
The children don't seem to show any desire to eat them, they just stamp on them.
The birds are having a feast at present.
When I was a schoolboy we nicked apples, some things have changed!
But some people haven't.