School Balls

[Grahameeboy]

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Bring your old pictures out are we.......

[Trudes]

Why is alcohol a "right of passage"....to what? You don't need alcohol to "have the opportunity to have such a wonderful memory"

I wasn't drunk. And it's called sarcasm.

[98tls]

Bring your old pictures out are we.......

Yea mate,bugger howd ya guess.

[Mom]

*Disclaimer* I am not a parent of a child at Rangitoto College.


However...

I totally support the school in this stance. Shit yes, call me a party pooper, call me a wowzer if you dare. Call me a kill joy while you are at it.

The community voted this schools BOT (Board of Trustees) in, they must have supported what they stood for surely? The parents of kids attending the school ball had to sign a permission slip that clearly stated the ball tickets were sold on the agreement that there was no booze at the ball, and no after ball piss up was permitted. Parents signed to that agreement and tickets to the ball were sold. End of story you would think.

No. There was an afterball event (a really important right of passage IMO, but against the rules at this school) organised and these same parents let their kids attend. The organisers of this after ball should be ashamed of themselves as should the parents that allowed their kids to attend it.

How can you be seen to set a "good" example to your kids if you show them that you are prepared to sign an agreement that you have no intention of keeping, and proving that even if there are rules you can break them and that is all ok?

Personally I would have been attending PTA meetings and talking about how positive it can be for kids to have that after ball piss/spew up, offering my support to keep it safe. There is no way I would have signed a slip to say, I agreed to the terms laid out ie, there was no afterball, in the full and certain knowledge there was, and allow my son or daughter to attend.
My kids would not have gone to the ball Cinderella. I most likely would have removed them from the school long before being placed in that position to be frank.

You reap what you sow folks. Vote in conservatives you get conservatives. Teach your kids to be dishonest and guess what you get?

[Grahameeboy]

I wasn't drunk. And it's called sarcasim.

That's not even close to sarcasm silly...

[Grahameeboy]

Yea mate,bugger howd ya guess.

...tell you later............

[FJRider]

There are laws about when, where and how people should be able to consume alcohol. The legal drinking age for alcohol is currently 18. Most secondary school students are younger than that. No school should condone underage people getting liquored. Neither should any responsible parent. Particularly when the influence of alcohol puts them at risk.

What under age people do when consent is not required is another matter entirely.

As I recall ... the legal age for buying alchohol is 18 ... if supplied by a parent or legal guardian, that age limit does not apply.

[Grahameeboy]

*Disclaimer* I am not a parent of a child at Rangitoto College.


However...

I totally support the school in this stance. Shit yes, call me a party pooper, call me a wowzer if you dare. Call me a kill joy while you are at it.

The community voted this schools BOT (Board of Trustees) in, they must have supported what they stood for surely? The parents of kids attending the school ball had to sign a permission slip that clearly stated the ball tickets were sold on the agreement that there was no booze at the ball, and no after ball piss up was permitted. Parents signed to that agreement and tickets to the ball were sold. End of story you would think.

No. There was an afterball event (a really important right of passage IMO, but against the rules at this school) organised and these same parents let their kids attend. The organisers of this after ball should be ashamed of themselves as should the parents that allowed their kids to attend it.

How can you be seen to set a "good" example to your kids if you show them that you are prepared to sign an agreement that you have no intention of keeping, and proving that even if there are rules you can break them and that is all ok?

Personally I would have been attending PTA meetings and talking about how positive it can be for kids to have that after ball piss/spew up, offering my support to keep it safe. There is no way I would have signed a slip to say, I agreed to the terms laid out ie, there was no afterball, in the full and certain knowledge there was, and allow my son or daughter to attend.
My kids would not have gone to the ball Cinderella. I most likely would have removed them from the school long before being placed in that position to be frank.

You reap what you sow folks. Vote in conservatives you get conservatives. Teach your kids to be dishonest and guess what you get?

+1...........I used to take school groups on skiing trips in Europe....I am pretty sure the parents allowed their kids to drink at 14 / 15..but we knew we could not cause if we did the parents would have been onto us.

It's just NZ parents thinking they know best again...

[SixPackBack]

What the fuck is wrong with our society??...........Getting pissed/stoned, spewing and shagging at your school ball should be fooken MANDATORY
Party poopers need a Viagra and tequila infusion-kick start the soul and get the juices flowing.

[Mom]

What the fuck is wrong with our society??...........Getting pissed/stoned, spewing and shagging at your school ball should be fooken MANDATORY
Party poopers need a Viagra and tequila infusion-kick start the soul and get the juices flowing.

How many of those kind of balls did your daughter attend SPB?

[Headbanger]

Obviously those kids need the bash.....as administered as part of good parenting.

[SixPackBack]

How many of those kind of balls did your daughter attend SPB?

2 grandma.................I met your daughter, bet she went to a couple herself.

[Mom]

As I recall ... the legal age for buying alchohol is 18 ... if supplied by a parent or legal guardian, that age limit does not apply.

If in fact it is a parent/legal guardian that gives it to them. Handing $20 to one of your mates so that there is some beer there for you to drink does not count. As a parent I would be and have in fact been seriously pissed off with people providing booze to my kids. I am about 2 months away from never having to buy booze for an underage child of mine ever again. I have done it. I drink, it is normal behaviour and my kids hopefully have learned that.

Another adult (now we have to count 18 year olds in that statistic as they can buy it) that provides any child of mine booze will feel the sharp edge of my tongue. My kids have for the most part been honest with me, and I have bought them a few beers for those really important after ball type events.

Honestly is what it is all about.

[FJRider]

Teach your kids to be dishonest and guess what you get?

Kids that choose which rules and laws they want to ignore when it is convenient for them... of feel those rules and laws do not, or should not, apply to them.

[Trudes]

Well this has all got a bit serial. I was always honest with my folks as to what I was doing, and as such they trusted me. If I wanted booze, I asked and they would purchase it for me (with my money) and in return I would tell them where I was going to be etc. It's about give and take. I had friends whose folks forbid them to come partying with us and drink etc and they were always the ones who would sneak out and get so slaughtered that we'd end up taking them home, dumping them on their doorstep and ringing the doorbell until their mummy came to take them inside. I was given trust and freedom and as such made sure I didn't fuck that up and kept out of trouble. Tell a teenager they can't do something and they will only go do it 10 times harder.