Beach week for seniors

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean they are going to get shitfaced and laid.

Beach during the day getting tan, sunset drinking, getting laid. I miss those days!!!

I guess it isn't obvious to me that 18 year olds having sex and drinking alcohol is a bad thing. Aren't they allowed to have a little fun before they settle down and become commercial lawyers or housewives or bureaucrats or management consultants in sexless marriages? There is plenty of time for that...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean they are going to get shitfaced and laid.

Beach during the day getting tan, sunset drinking, getting laid. I miss those days!!!

I guess it isn't obvious to me that 18 year olds having sex and drinking alcohol is a bad thing. Aren't they allowed to have a little fun before they settle down and become commercial lawyers or housewives or bureaucrats or management consultants in sexless marriages? There is plenty of time for that...

The alcohol part is illegal. Do I think it should be nope however it still is.

Bottom line if your kid can not do beach week they are not ready to go away to college.

Is it a requirement they go and you pay for it nope.

Beach week is also a good test to see if your kid makes good decisions before leaving for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean they are going to get shitfaced and laid.

Beach during the day getting tan, sunset drinking, getting laid. I miss those days!!!

I guess it isn't obvious to me that 18 year olds having sex and drinking alcohol is a bad thing. Aren't they allowed to have a little fun before they settle down and become commercial lawyers or housewives or bureaucrats or management consultants in sexless marriages? There is plenty of time for that...

The alcohol part is illegal. Do I think it should be nope however it still is.

Bottom line if your kid can not do beach week they are not ready to go away to college.

Is it a requirement they go and you pay for it nope.

Beach week is also a good test to see if your kid makes good decisions before leaving for college.

Yeah, but it's not always a test they can recover from if they fail. They can end up with a rap sheet or irreversible trauma. And I don't see how the benefits outweigh the risks here given that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean they are going to get shitfaced and laid.

Beach during the day getting tan, sunset drinking, getting laid. I miss those days!!!

I guess it isn't obvious to me that 18 year olds having sex and drinking alcohol is a bad thing. Aren't they allowed to have a little fun before they settle down and become commercial lawyers or housewives or bureaucrats or management consultants in sexless marriages? There is plenty of time for that...

The alcohol part is illegal. Do I think it should be nope however it still is.

Bottom line if your kid can not do beach week they are not ready to go away to college.

Is it a requirement they go and you pay for it nope.

Beach week is also a good test to see if your kid makes good decisions before leaving for college.

That is such crap.

[Anonymous]

Anyone attend the beach week meeting at WJ last night and fill us in?

[Anonymous]

I went to beach week and drank, went to the beach with friends, clubbing under 21 joints in Wildwood NJ and yes, had sex with my boyfriend. It was honestly a great week. No issues. Core memories.

I won’t endorse it but I won’t be against it.

[Anonymous]

It’s in VA beach this year- gross. Same stuff happens, DUI arrests, house parties broken up, parents fined, scholarships pulled….

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s in VA beach this year- gross. Same stuff happens, DUI arrests, house parties broken up, parents fined, scholarships pulled….

Scholarships pulled LOL

How dramatic are you? You read one article and declare it happens to everyone.

[Anonymous]

Mine is only in 9th grade and I can already tell which parents will be “rah rah beach week!” (I probably could have guessed the same in 5th grade.) And it’s definitely not the ones whose kids I would send mine on a trip with.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s in VA beach this year- gross. Same stuff happens, DUI arrests, house parties broken up, parents fined, scholarships pulled….

Scholarships pulled LOL

How dramatic are you? You read one article and declare it happens to everyone.

Actually, it’s personal knowledge and it happened three separate beach weeks in 2019, 2022, and 2023.

[Anonymous]

But the percentage is less than 0.05%

That’s the whole point. Your kid has a higher chance of getting shot in school or in a car accident. The reason it makes headlines is because it’s so rare and the kids did terrible things. Not just go to beach week like 99% of teens do and have a chill week

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But the percentage is less than 0.05%

That’s the whole point. Your kid has a higher chance of getting shot in school or in a car accident. The reason it makes headlines is because it’s so rare and the kids did terrible things. Not just go to beach week like 99% of teens do and have a chill week

The percent who go is nowhere close to that. Time to leave your bubble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But the percentage is less than 0.05%

That’s the whole point. Your kid has a higher chance of getting shot in school or in a car accident. The reason it makes headlines is because it’s so rare and the kids did terrible things. Not just go to beach week like 99% of teens do and have a chill week

If they just want to “have a chill week” with friends just have a week long staycation in your supervised home with their friend group.

Should be fine if the point is to “chill for the week with friends”. And not party/drink/get high/have sex/get into trouble.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh my, I along with another mom have agreed to chaperone DD and her 6 friends to beach week this year. DD is very laid back and not a partier. I hope her friends are easy going like her. I was surprised that no other parents want to tag along. No one has reached out so it means either they have no clue about the trip or they don’t really care. I was planning to draft an email to all the parents to at lease let them know there will be two adults for emergency situations (aka hospital runs if something happens) but the two adults are not liable for decisions their kids make.

Are there anything I should or should not include in that note?

Clearly indicate why you mean by nobly liable or responsible. As in will not be picking up tabs, buying/supplying alcohol or drugs nor monitoring intake, not bailing anyone out of jail, etc.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:But the percentage is less than 0.05%

That’s the whole point. Your kid has a higher chance of getting shot in school or in a car accident. The reason it makes headlines is because it’s so rare and the kids did terrible things. Not just go to beach week like 99% of teens do and have a chill week

If they just want to “have a chill week” with friends just have a week long staycation in your supervised home with their friend group.

Should be fine if the point is to “chill for the week with friends”. And not party/drink/get high/have sex/get into trouble.

Wow, you sound like a barrel of fun.

Now, maybe leaving the kids at home alone and parents going to the beach…you are onto something.