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This response sounds very sensible to me and I'm from Ohio (not the most exciting place in the universe). I never went to beach week -- nor did anyone I grew up with. We waited until we were adults and could pay our own way. We also had jobs. I agree with NYC that this beach week thing must be some weird DC ritual. I think it is an invitation to screw up. Kids are leaving for college in a few months. They'll have plenty of time to explore life. Like NYC -- we all had job to go to in the summer to earn money for school. Maybe DC kids are more coddled than others.

[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in NYC.  I find this rite of passage so peculiar.  You finish HS and you get a week at the beach with your friends to be drunk, screw around and experiment with drugs?  As if you'll never see your friends again?

When we finished HS, a bunch of us had summer jobs to start and one last special summer vacation with our family.  My parents took us to London for a week which I really appreciated.  I met people all summer long to hang out in cafes, go to Bway shows on cheap tickets and kiss my boyfriend in romantic places like the Empire State Building.

Maybe its a mark of how boring DC is as a city that teens have to go to the beach to to be somewhere "exciting."

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