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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not from around here, so didn't participate in a beach week.  Did parents 30 years ago object too?  Or, was it a given.  I don't know anyone from here that didn't go.

Are parents today less likely to let their own kids go b/c they know what goes on?  Will this tradition die out as more parents object?  Maybe I won't have to worry about making the decision in 15 years.  :)[/quote]

I graduated from high school 30 years ago, and the drinking age at that time was 18. I was not 18 quite at that point, but all of my friends were. They had been going to bars on a regular basis before graduation, so it was kind of different than today when you have to be 21 to buy or possess alcohol. My parents let me go to beach week, not understanding what the whole thing was about, but my friends and I honestly did nothing that we didn't already do at home (and that did involve a lot of drinking and drug use by some). A few people from my h.s. (boys) got arrested and some thrown out of their hotel. But when we went to the beach, most of the kids couldn't have been arrested just for possession of alcohol, unlike the graduates of today who are all underage.

The parents of h.s. graduates that I am friends with have not let their kids go to beach week, because they knew that it was an all-week party and had heard of too many kids getting hurt or arrested.

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