Maryland senior/ "beach" week

surfcity
Fri, 11 Oct 2013 17:13:59 +0000

This was talked about on the Parents Class of 2013 thread in the spring. Lots of opinions.

I heard many stories that would make your hair stand on end about what the “good”/NHS kids were doing that week. One trip to the hospital (no one in the condo was sober enough to drive so they had to call around for a driver), lots of hooking up/contests, and of course drinking. And this is the info that was disclosed to the “parent network” and/or posted on FB. I can’t imagine what else happened.

I know kids drink and do stupid things. But we as parents opted not to put that much temptation on our kid for a whole week. Too easy to make one stupid mistake that could haunt you forever. We told S if he gave us a plan and itinerary, we would consider it, but he never did.

I know one group that actually came home early because they got sick of all the partying and cleaning up. Another condo got kicked out for too many noise violations. And again, these were the star athletes and students and volunteers at the HS.