Quoted from normangerman

But Gizmo, what should the people who finished Year 12 do instead? I mean, they have just finished a 13-year long stage of their life that they worked and learnt extremely hard under. Isn't it a bit too conservative to just leave them locked up at home, and be anti-social? ...

They can do what you did, Norman;  go out and have fun.  Or what my year 12s did (some at least), have a great meal with their wonderful English teacher.

Quoted from dara

Yeah stupid creepy adults!!

With an attitude like that Dara ,it will be ages before you are one yourself  

LB - I think she was referring to the "toolies" type adults, not the respectable "normal" ones like you and me.  

LW I didn't mean every adult I meant toolies as I said before >:C

Lol paula did you really have dinner with them?

I'm not going to schoolies.

Quoted from Lawnbowler

With an attitude like that Dara ,it will be ages before you are one yourself  

BTW that is true anyway. I am only 15. Therefore it is literally ages until I will be an adult.

I feel, and this is just my opinion.... that schoolies who want to misbehave, act up, drink alcohol (legal or illegal) or do/try illegal substances do go to the Gold Coast. Schoolies who don't intend to do those things also go to the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast. At these venues there are schoolies only areas fenced/roped off and under security and police patrols. In Queensland it is illegal to walk around with alcohol in public places and streets. If you are caught you are fined. I love that law because it has made park land areas and beaches alcohol free and family friendly. I feel that schoolies who just want to have a good time and let off steam after 13 years of non stop schooling tend to stay in their local areas. The idea that going to the 'Goldie' for schoolies is to be as far out of reach of parental control as possible. It is controlled and policed and events organised very well IMHO but there will always be the few bad apples who spoil the whole barrel.  

sorry Dara, misunderstood your remark....................................

They have shown footage of the schoolies over here in the west hitting our SW town of Duns borough and Rottnest Island.  About 30 evictions so far from the island and numerous kids admitted to hospital with alcohol poisoning.  The behavior of those kids in front of camera was utterly disgusting and gross.  I pity the parents who see their kids on TV in this situation, utterly drunk.  
I thank god that none of my 5 daughters ever acted in this way, they were not angels but at least they knew when to stop.
Perhaps I was just lucky.....

Quoted from normangerman

But Gizmo, what should the people who finished Year 12 do instead? I mean, they have just finished a 13-year long stage of their life that they worked and learnt extremely hard under. Isn't it a bit too conservative to just leave them locked up at home, and be anti-social?.

There is middle ground too . . I didn't say they all had to stay locked up and out of sight.

Somewhere in between staying home alone and a drunken crowd of 50,000 there has to be something to do that does not involve a whole week of unguarded risk taking  . . that's all I was saying.  

Quoted from dara

... Lol paula did you really have dinner with them?...

Yep, last Friday night at Fasta Pasta!  

Quoted from Paula

Yep, last Friday night at Fasta Pasta!  

Hahaha, funny-as. Did you bring your cat?

Did you mark them on eating efficiency and then scaled them up or down?

Haha, some random thoughts there...

Lol!

It is ok LawnBowler.

Didn't go to schoolies this year, and frankly I don't know anyone in my year that would have, or would have been allowed to.

I think get-togethers and the like are a more appropriate means of celebrating the end of our schooling days as we know it rather than the orgy of drunken teenagers known as Schoolies Week.

When I left Year 12 waaaaay back in 1983 there was no such thing as Schoolies (not in Gladstone anyways!).  We had our Year 12 Prom and the next day the school had "Recovery Day" where the Year 12's went over to one of the local islands with our teachers/classmates and had a huge BBQ/end of Year 12 celebration.  It was great!  No drinking or abuse, everyone had a great time.  It was our way of saying goodbye to teachers, friends etc and moving on to our next stage of adulthood.  Yes school years are a hard slog and yes kids shoud be allowed to celebrate it but at what cost?  Most of the kids will never remember it anyway especially if they have wiped out a few brain cells in the process.  I think parents should encourage their kids to celebrate the end of school in different ways.  Remember these kids are our next doctors. lawyers, politicians, teachers, mothers, fathers etc...

My friends brother came back from schoolies on the gold coast and she said he said it was really safe. Like you have id card thingies and you are not allowed places without them and there are helpers everywhere and it was really fun not all drugs and stuff.
That said I still don't think I'll go.

A couple of weeks ago, we had a prom (or "formal"), but I was really miserable that night because one of my best mates didn't turn up, and I watched the "woman I love" dance around crazily all night.

Dammit I didn't even have anybody to waltz with.