Exposed: The filthy reality of Schoolies Week

[icyfroth]

FLASHING, boozing, sex and STDs. Welcome to Schoolies 2013. This is where the class ends and the wild times begin. As the final school bell rings, thousands descend on Surfers Paradise in Queensland to let loose after completing their Year 12 studies. The results are always worse than any mother could ever imagine.

Would you like to see your teenager like this?

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Beware, they may offend.

I wish they would ban schoolies. I don't know why the hotels give them accomodation.

[cherry*135]

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@just*duff wrote:

if its still on the G/C in 2 years, my boy would still choose not to go. he's not stupid. not saying every kid that goes there is stupid but the whole reason to go there is to get wasted and [thankfully] being wasted isnt something my boy is into.

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Exactly, not every teenager is into doing that. I wonder what % of school leavers from all over Australia attend schoolies week in places like the Gold Coast or Bali. The party animal schoolies may not even be the majority of the school leavers for that year.

[**meep**]

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@just*duff wrote:

if its still on the G/C in 2 years, my boy would still choose not to go. he's not stupid. not saying every kid that goes there is stupid but the whole reason to go there is to get wasted and [thankfully] being wasted isnt something my boy is into.

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same as my daughter (from what i remember she is the same age as your son) she is not interested in going.

[Anonymous]

Am, they are probably the minority? from all over Oz.

Meep, we are both lucky!

[Anonymous]

Ibis,  debauchery? um..what decade are we in? that's like a word from the 1800's. lol.

[joz*garage]

i left school at 15, wasnt old enough for that kinda thing

did i miss out on much?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHC8cYEhzM

[belindabargainhunter]

Same I left school at 15 to work full time. When I was younger I was thinking I was missing out. As an adult I relise that I am better off. 

I think that treating these things as kids having fun leads to problems in the future. Not all kids but the problems with drinking and drug taking in todays youth is becomming a problem.

[belindabargainhunter]

well another problem for schoolies a teenage girl is attacked and an 18 year old turns them self in.

[**meep**]

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@joz*garage wrote:

i left school at 15, wasnt old enough for that kinda thing

did i miss out on much?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHC8cYEhzM

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I didn't participate in  schoolies week after completing yr 12, none of my friends did.  We had a muck-up day of course and yes, that was a lot of fun. Great memories.

[icyfroth]

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@joz*garage wrote:

i left school at 15, wasnt old enough for that kinda thing

did i miss out on much?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFHC8cYEhzM

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Same. I couldn't wait to leave school and get a job and have my own money. I started working about a week afterward. None of my contemporaries drank alcohol much we used to go to the pub after work on Friday/Saturday nights or private parties  but there was no danger of getting drunk because:

a. the pubs closed at 10 and there was nowhere else to go but home, yours or someone elses.

b. No self-respecting girl would be seen drinking like that and have their parents/boss informed of it.

I did smoke (cigarettes) though, started and 15 and didn't give up til well into my 30s

[joz*garage]

didnt finish second year high school in QLD (think it was second year)

just turned 15 on my birthday the family shifted to W.A

got into a job straight away which wasnt my choice i wanted to continue school

ha, was earning &20 a week then

my mother took half for board! 

for years i missed school, but i got over it