"Schoolies"

[mellie]

Getting back to schoolies week .... I'd like to see it banned.

Surely a nation wide government endorsed initiative to ban what is essentially the promotion of young people who's brains are still developing to binge drink is in order?

I think it's a disgrace, and so typical of our governments beurocratic hypocrisy when it comes to 'selectively' passing said 'health focused' legislation.

Eg, legislating plain packaging on cigarettes is deemed more of a priority than the developing brains of our binge drinking schooly youth.

The human brain hasn't finish developing until age 24 the AMA advise.

I say ban schoolies week, and the promotion of it all together.

Our media have a lot to answer for, god or bad, any publicity is good publicity when it comes to hotel chains, food and beverage vendors cashing in on a schooly booze-up.

Hotels etc cash-in big this time of year, a time of year that would otherwise be quite slow and use 'schoolies-week' as a marketing gimmick.

It seems, schoolies are hell bent on claiming notoriety for having gained the most media attention, each year trying to out-disgrace the next.

Parents have a lot to answer for too... many of them funding their teenage still-living-at-home dependants boozy celebrations.

Tell me, how does a 17 or 18 year old kid afford an absolute beach-front penthouse apartment in a 5 star hotel on the Gold coast for a week?

Check this site out... and there are many more where these came from.
http://www.schoolies.com/


The promotion of schoolies has become a lucrative little money making scheme in itself, with said 'holiday planners' out there sucking kids in well in advance.

Will our government grow a set of balls and pass legislation to clamp down on this lunacy?

How many more kids have to fall into harms way?

Like off the top floor balcony of a high-rise apartment before they wake up and smell their own hypocrisy.

Schoolies week wasn't always an Australian youth tradition.

[Jovial Monk]

Dear yahoo troll, I offered observations of how things have changed. I don’t interfere in others’ affairs, esp family affairs.

[mellie]

Dear yahoo troll, I offered observations of how things have changed. I don’t interfere in others’ affairs, esp family affairs.

You are off-topic Monk, this and appear to be trolling this thread yourself.

Take it some place else, noones interested.



Now, getting back to schoolies week...

[Jovial Monk]

Oh doG, the fucking lunatic is back

[mellie]

http://www.schoolies.com/about


Would Schoolies CEO Matt Lloyd allow his own teenage school-leaver to attend schoolies week I wonder?

An overwhelming percentage of those leavers attending Schoolies in the first week especially are shy of their 18th birthdays but still manage to get their hands on large amounts of alcohol.

During last year's event on the Gold Coast alone, police made 140 arrests and issued 270 alcohol infringement notices while research by the National Schoolies Week organisation suggests that 52.3% of boys and 37.3% of girls get drunk every night and day of Schoolies Week.

Our government needs to cramp down on this insidious multimillion dollar industry, and CEO's like Matt Lloyd churning a sizeable profit from it.

[mellie]

My son (just turned 18) contemplated attending schoolies week with a group of friends this year, though weighed up the pro's and con's for himself and dismissed it as a total waste of money, money he'd rather spend upgrading his super computers.

I'm lucky he's a bit of a tight ass, and prefers to save his money, as this was what deterred him from attending.

This said, he did contemplate attending, though before asking my permission or hitting me up for some ca$h, he thought better of it.


Also, he knew I would have said no anyway, so....

[mantra]

My son (just turned 18) contemplated attending schoolies week with a group of friends this year, though weighed up the pro's and con's for himself and dismissed it as a total waste of money, money he'd rather spend upgrading his super computers.

I'm lucky he's a bit of a tight ass, and prefers to save his money, as this was what deterred him from attending.

This said, he did contemplate attending, though before asking my permission or hitting me up for some ca$h, he thought better of it.


Also, he knew I would have said no anyway, so....

Good to see you back Mel.

I totally agree - schoolies should be banned. It causes nothing but worry. There was another idiot boy climbing a ledge precariously today. The kids watch all these action movies and think they're invincible.

Monk - don't give Mel a hard time.

[Jovial Monk]

Fuck Mellie. Fuck Bart too, that complete arsehole covered up a post by Annie that she was desperate FD see, OK? Mellie is a fucking lunatic who needs treatment and Bart is a plain cu.nt. OK, mantra?

[Rorschach]

How can a child afford a "schoolies" holiday?
How many parents would give their child permission to attend such a thing given the publicity it gets?

It is expensive.

Parents sometimes feel powerless when their children want something that all their friends have. You know there's danger, but you also don't want them to feel disadvantaged - and as Orchid said - you can't wrap them in cotton wool.

You can't stop teenagers from experimenting with different aspects of life when they get to 17 or 18 as much as you'd like to. What do you say to them - do as I say, not as I did. Many children of my generation left home at 16 and we survived, although there weren't as many temptations as there are today. There was also no welfare, so everyone worked. Kids today have a cushion with a generous youth allowance which probably helps them pay for their entertainment.

All you can do is say a little prayer for their safety and try not to think about what they're doing that they don't tell you about.

Several pages later mantra now thinks...

I totally agree - schoolies should be banned.

[Aussie]

There was another idiot boy climbing a ledge precariously today. The kids watch all these action movies and think they're invincible.

Saw that.....and what was waiting on the balcony he was climbing over to?

Don't they have front doors to these Units?