Anonymous wrote:Graduated from local all-boys school in mid-80s. Junior year, we went to beach week for one week. Senior year, we did two weeks. Lots of drinking, partying, puking and hooking up. 12 of us stayed in a place meant for 6. It was disgusting. I didn’t check in with my parents for two weeks (no cellphones). We acted like a bunch of fools. It was two of the best weeks of my life, and I would do it all over again, if I could. My friends and I still reminisce about it 35 years later. My son just finished his freshman year at the same high school I attended. I will have no qualms about letting him go. I trust him and our parenting. For those of you who pass negative judgment on me, get a life. Let your kid be a kid.

Anonymous wrote:Graduated from local all-boys school in mid-80s. Junior year, we went to beach week for one week. Senior year, we did two weeks. Lots of drinking, partying, puking and hooking up. 12 of us stayed in a place meant for 6. It was disgusting. I didn’t check in with my parents for two weeks (no cellphones). We acted like a bunch of fools. It was two of the best weeks of my life, and I would do it all over again, if I could. My friends and I still reminisce about it 35 years later. My son just finished his freshman year at the same high school I attended. I will have no qualms about letting him go. I trust him and our parenting. For those of you who pass negative judgment on me, get a life. Let your kid be a kid.

Anonymous wrote:Graduated from local all-boys school in mid-80s. Junior year, we went to beach week for one week. Senior year, we did two weeks. Lots of drinking, partying, puking and hooking up. 12 of us stayed in a place meant for 6. It was disgusting. I didn’t check in with my parents for two weeks (no cellphones). We acted like a bunch of fools. It was two of the best weeks of my life, and I would do it all over again, if I could. My friends and I still reminisce about it 35 years later. My son just finished his freshman year at the same high school I attended. I will have no qualms about letting him go. I trust him and our parenting. For those of you who pass negative judgment on me, get a life. Let your kid be a kid.

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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: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.

Anonymous wrote:My DC just got back from beach week today. And the extent of partying really varied from house to house. Not sure why you are all so worried, unless you really don’t trust your own teen. The popular fast crowd will still be popular and fast, the so called “frat” house even with a chaperone. And sometimes it’s the adult chaperones who encourage it because they are still living vicariously through their kids. But most of the other houses are really not any different from life on the weekends with their typical friend group. Yes, they may visit the other houses, but that does not mean every teen is drinking or hooking up. Some honestly just want to have a good time with friends for the last time. Beach week is a microcosm of college. Some party, some don’t.

Anonymous wrote:Based on the responses so far, it seems that parents with “DS” are more comfortable with this vs parents with “DD”. At least there seem to be more risk factors for girls.

Anonymous wrote:I will never for the life of me understand why parents go along with this. Don’t tell me, let me guess. You can’t stand the thought that your child might miss something

Anonymous wrote: No further questions your Honor.