Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beach is the center of all activities: kids gather en masse and play in the ocean, maybe beach volleyball, lots of sunbathing and maybe sunburns.

Nighttime is extra fun: weenie roasts, s’mores and singalongs on the beach - someone always brings a guitar! Sometimes couples will pair off during the campfire and hold hands and walk on the beach at night. Rotating houses host move nights and it’s popcorn and ice cream floats and deck dancing.

Depending on where the kids are - a night on the boardwalk is also in order; arcade games, rides, and all-night diners.

One morning a house full of girls invited neighboring boys in for a pancake breakfast followed by a limbo contest in the driveway.

Loads of good, clean, wholesome fun in the fresh sea air.

Oh yeah. It's all an episode of Leave it To Beaver.

PP, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. And the biggest clue is that you refer to a boardwalk, of which there is none in Corolla/ Duck.

Pretty sure that the PP was joking and you missed it

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beach is the center of all activities: kids gather en masse and play in the ocean, maybe beach volleyball, lots of sunbathing and maybe sunburns.

Nighttime is extra fun: weenie roasts, s’mores and singalongs on the beach - someone always brings a guitar! Sometimes couples will pair off during the campfire and hold hands and walk on the beach at night. Rotating houses host move nights and it’s popcorn and ice cream floats and deck dancing.

Depending on where the kids are - a night on the boardwalk is also in order; arcade games, rides, and all-night diners.

One morning a house full of girls invited neighboring boys in for a pancake breakfast followed by a limbo contest in the driveway.

Loads of good, clean, wholesome fun in the fresh sea air.

Oh yeah. It's all an episode of Leave it To Beaver.

PP, you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about. And the biggest clue is that you refer to a boardwalk, of which there is none in Corolla/ Duck.

Uh, I think the PP was being facetious.

Beach week at the Delaware beaches some houses lots of sex, drinking, and drugs with or without parents present. Some like previous poster said beach during day, arcades, game nights very little to no drinking or drugs, some sex...I agree with a few of the other posters. These are adults or kids on the cusp of adulthood we are sending out into the world in the next 6 - 12 weeks. We had a medical incident and I was very impressed with how the kids dealt with it. Took care of friend when they sliced foot on metal, got them to er when they realized the cut was bigger than they thought. And when the stitch came out...took friend back to the er .

What parent wants that kind of responsibility as the 'chaperone'? If someone, underage, gets drunk and in trouble, guess, isn't the chaperoning parent on the hook? No thanks.

Good kids make bad choices, especially with peer pressure. Or someone from another house, shows up and creates an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So gross. No desire to send my kids (especially daughters) to these schools you are so proud of. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

public schools have beach week too- at least they did back in the 90s.

Maybe, but the mix of entitlement, access to drugs, and access to beach houses definitely makes this riskier. If you wouldn’t send your daughters, why the hell would you send your sons? That’s just messed up.

Wrong. Public school grad here. We had sketchier rentals with so many to a room that I slept on the floor. Beach week is only safe if kids are staying with a family who is hosting. They need some oversight. Kids who are happy with that sort of arrangement tend not to be partiers.

+1 our public school went to ocean city in the 80s and it was gross and jam packed and truly unsafe.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So gross. No desire to send my kids (especially daughters) to these schools you are so proud of. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

public schools have beach week too- at least they did back in the 90s.

Maybe, but the mix of entitlement, access to drugs, and access to beach houses definitely makes this riskier. If you wouldn’t send your daughters, why the hell would you send your sons? That’s just messed up.

Wrong. Public school grad here. We had sketchier rentals with so many to a room that I slept on the floor. Beach week is only safe if kids are staying with a family who is hosting. They need some oversight. Kids who are happy with that sort of arrangement tend not to be partiers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So gross. No desire to send my kids (especially daughters) to these schools you are so proud of. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

public schools have beach week too- at least they did back in the 90s.

Maybe, but the mix of entitlement, access to drugs, and access to beach houses definitely makes this riskier. If you wouldn’t send your daughters, why the hell would you send your sons? That’s just messed up.

Yeah, the Langley and Whitman kids definitely have less entitlement andd less access to drugs than the Big 3 kids. Snort !

Anonymous wrote:I have a recently graduated senior at beach week on the outer banks right now and I am having second thoughts about allowing him to go. How concerned should I be? I am hearing almost nothing from him. Please allay my fears. Tell me that this is just a rite of passage and nothing really crazy happens. Any parents who have had kids go and have come back with nothing super horrible having happened?

My beach week was in OBX. We had parents staying in the houses (1 for guys and 1 for girls). I think 90% of the combined group got arrested and their parents had to drive down, bail them out, and they had to drive back again for their court dates and do community service that summer. Oh, and the guys’ house was trashed (broken TVs, etc.) so security deposit definitely wasn’t returned but don’t remember the financial ramifications of that.

I’m assuming your son’s just started, so I wouldn’t be concerned about “hearing almost nothing from him.” Let him enjoy his week.

Seriously, for all you parents flipping out, what do you expect college to be like in two months? There will be parties, sex, drugs and even more celebrating that parents are watching over them like wardens. Just like college, people at beach week are not required to engage and can not attend or just do daytime fun like chill on the beach.

Plus beach week is different now. Most houses have at least 1-2 parents as chaperones. Most ask students to walk a certain line, such as curfew, no hard liquor, no drugs. My student says they plan to have fun at the beach each day, talk to friends from other houses, go to different parties and then play cards later at night their own house with their friends.

Our house has two parents at the house at all times during the week (doing it in shifts so no parent has to do all week).

Anonymous wrote:How on earth are y’all gonna handle college in (checks calendar) 2 months!?

This! I much rather my kid figure things out when he will be returning to my house after than in 2 months when I won't see him until Thanksgiving.

Sex, drugs and rock and roll.

It's nothing these days like it was in the 1980's. Relax, your kid is fine.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So gross. No desire to send my kids (especially daughters) to these schools you are so proud of. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

public schools have beach week too- at least they did back in the 90s.

Maybe, but the mix of entitlement, access to drugs, and access to beach houses definitely makes this riskier. If you wouldn’t send your daughters, why the hell would you send your sons? That’s just messed up.

Anonymous wrote:So gross. No desire to send my kids (especially daughters) to these schools you are so proud of. Wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy.

public schools have beach week too- at least they did back in the 90s.

Anonymous wrote:Booze, drugs, poor decision making, sex, jealousy, regret. I would worry about consent issues as well as laced drugs if they are doing any beyond marijuana. I would certainly not offer to be a host. I’d be reluctant to allow my child to go but it is an “important” social event. I’d rather send my kid and two friends to Europe than send them to beach week.

Go for Europe instead. This is so trashy and problematic.