School Leavers

Creatures · Post by **Mysfytt** » December 25th, 2013, 9:02:56 pm

I don't know if you have this strange tradition in your country, but in recent years in Australia those who graduate Year 12 seem to think it is just an excuse (or just another one really) to get drunk, high, and cause criminal damage to things. many go to Bali or other destinations where drugs and alcohol are virtually free for all, and police are run ragged trying to stop the amount of alcohol and drug entering the 'set venues' in town ovals.

When I left school, which wasn't THAT long ago, we had fun by trashing the school and town with little more than toilet paper, flour bombs, rotten fruit, petroleum jelly and glucose. We had a ball all night long, but no lasting damage ever occurred except once instance of 'Toolies' throwing green tomatoes at a house and breaking a window, while we were using over ripe ones. They splat so much better. We had fun, the town was a little dirtier but no one was insulted or injured in any way and property was cleaned up by a hose - usually with our assistance. The school grounds definitely had to be hosed off before the other classes arrived the next morning because they were still going. At 6am after an all nighter of flour bombs and silly string we still did it.

Now the focus has shifted so far to the left it isn't funny.

What do you think of this development in our young people? if these are the future of the nation, are we headed for the toilet by the next generation? Where is the respect for themselves let alone others?

Creatures · Post by **You** » March 13th, 2014, 9:29:43 pm

I don't like it. I don't like this sort of thing at all. It reminds me of all those college parties I hear about all the time...all the sickening trouble those parties cause...all of it's painful to realize. It is, in my opinion, that these sort of things that are wounds highly unlikely to heal. The only thing I really do is sit back and watch those idiots ruin their lives, just so I can tell them "I told you so" when they realize their mistake, so I'm not going to be much help in fixing this.

Someday, those kids will understand that they need responsibility in their lives. Someday, life will bite them in the ass...no, that's sugarcoating it, life will probably tear their rectums out.

Creatures · Post by **Roisty09** » March 16th, 2014, 7:41:58 am

People don't realise how dangerous doing those things are, all the consequences... I know a 'friend' who is very much like that. He's also incredibly sexist too and he thinks everyone likes him... Sadly everyone seems to do so. I don't get it, he's a jerk and 1000 other names under the sun yet everyone just accepts it and then joins in no matter what. Whenever my parents get mad at me staying indoors all the time, I use my 'friend' as an example why... I wish people would learn how to take matters into their own hands and think about somebody else for once and then maybe they'd see how much of clown they really are.

Creatures · Post by **Grizz** » March 17th, 2014, 1:15:23 am

Mysfytt wrote:When I left school, which wasn't THAT long ago, we had fun by trashing the school and town with little more than toilet paper, flour bombs, rotten fruit, petroleum jelly and glucose. We had a ball all night long, but no lasting damage ever occurred except once instance of 'Toolies' throwing green tomatoes at a house and breaking a window, while we were using over ripe ones. They splat so much better. We had fun, the town was a little dirtier but no one was insulted or injured in any way and property was cleaned up by a hose - usually with our assistance. The school grounds definitely had to be hosed off before the other classes arrived the next morning because they were still going. At 6am after an all nighter of flour bombs and silly string we still did it.

That sounds very similar to our senior prank night the year I graduated. It was a tradition before us, but I think it was stopped by 2006.

Here, like probably anywhere else, it happens, but I've never heard of anyone blaming that behavior on being a senior. It's been more years that I like to admit to since I graduated so maybe it does increase, but a cursory glance at the criminal justice databases through my university doesn't seem to show that as a correlation. I'll look again later and update if I find any actual quantifiable data, but from personal experience no.

As far as the general change in the younger generations, it boils down to two things: 1. Older generations (grandparent age) remember back when and each generation will eventually do the same. They were never rowdy and walked 50 miles uphill in 20 feet of snow both ways to school (gross over-exaggeration) and were happy to do it. 2. The generation that came before (the parents) find fault in how they were raised and many throw the good out with the bad to be the cool parents. This causes the youngest generation (the kids) to sometimes be a little worse. Are our respective countries in for a world of hurt? I don't believe so. For every horror show of a person, there is at least one person who isn't like that.

Creatures · Post by **Tekla** » March 17th, 2014, 4:31:21 pm

Sounds like senior pranks in the US. My high school tolerated it until in my second year of HS some seniors caused intentional damage as part of their "prank," so it become vandalism. I don't know if the school ever found out which senior(s) did it.
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Where I come from, the problem isn't even rooted in the teenagers themselves.

It's rooted in their parents. Their parents are unwilling to actually be parents - they don't spend a lot of time interacting with and raising their child (preferring to sit them down in front of a TV with cartoons and games instead). As such the kids generally aren't even disciplined; I can't tell you how many screaming toddlers in the store get their way. Not to mention that they often start picking up foul language at an early age from their parents and extended family as well as their peers who are being raised the same way.

And I've only seen this perpetuating itself.

As for what I think of this development, it needs to go back to the depths from whence it came. Nothing good is coming of it; there's an increasing number of children growing up this way.

As for respect for themselves and others: they don't have any for others.

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