School Balls

[Trudes]

Lovely ol' chap, I'll have the one in the white cup.

[Dean]

Afterballs can get out of hand, I attended two afterballs and many after parties of schools on the north shore. And honestly they get out of hand really bad, because most of the teens cant hold their liquor and some have criminal connections. Fore instance my group of mates had knives pulled out on us, gangs outnumbering my mates *2 wanting to fight pitch dark in a reserve park. The ones who walked alone got bashed, countless people down for assault. Now If the parents actually knew this goes on then I bet most would not let their teens go to afterballs, If per ce one of my mates had got stabbed If we decided to fight the gangs then it would be over the news.

[Hitcher]

If per ce one of my mates had got stabbed If we decided to fight the gangs then it would be over the news.

If percy got stabbed I thought you would have other more pressing concerns than being on the news.

[98tls]

Afterballs can get out of hand, I attended two afterballs and many after parties of schools on the north shore. And honestly they get out of hand really bad, because most of the teens cant hold their liquor and some have criminal connections. Fore instance my group of mates had knives pulled out on us, gangs outnumbering my mates *2 wanting to fight pitch dark in a reserve park. The ones who walked alone got bashed, countless people down for assault. Now If the parents actually knew this goes on then I bet most would not let their teens go to afterballs, If per ce one of my mates had got stabbed If we decided to fight the gangs then it would be over the news.

Percy needs to realise that whatever he does in his life more than likely its been done many times before by many, years before.Percys problem is that he refuses to listen.

[Dean]

If percy got stabbed I thought you would have other more pressing concerns than being on the news.

I meant per-ce as in example not the name percy. Yes I would have concerns for one of my mates health and support him however, but it would also paint a bad picture on the school. So the school in defense to save their reputation would ban the afterballs which would affect all year 12 and 13 students, think of this like squid motorcyclists painting a general bad image on bikers to the general public due to the squids antics.

[gatch]

At one ball after party I fingered a girl on the dance floor then got so drunk I fell over outside my mates house and when i woke up there was frost on my clothes..

At the same party 2 of my friends were trying to woo this girl, one of them went so far as to press his boner into her hand..

Yeah, we were all class.

[98tls]

I meant per-ce as in example not the name percy. Yes I would have concerns for one of my mates health and support him however, but it would also paint a bad picture on the school. So the school in defense to save their reputation would ban the afterballs which would affect all year 12 and 13 students, think of this like squid motorcyclists painting a general bad image on bikers to the general public due to the squids antics.

I hear ya,get this guyNo intention of waving at allSquid

[Dean]

I hear ya,get this guyNo intention of waving at allSquid

I see, I wear Kelvar Jeans and workboots does that make me a squid?
Anyways pretty much to all fathers on kb trust me the kids may promise to be fine but please make sure they have a weapon for protection or know self defense. Dodgy people try to snatch girls walking home from afterballs no matter how many freinds the girls claim to be walking home with, and any guy alone or in a group is a target at an afterball because teens on the booze get adrenalin bursts and want to fight anything that moves around them.

[merv]

My point exactly. Shouldn't every 16 year old girl have the opportunity to have such a wonderful memory of a right of passage in her young and impressionable life as a woman?
Come on, must be some better school ball/dance stories out there?!!

Haha, and you said in your earlier post "I don't really remember much of my school ball" - so much for wonderful memories huh!

[Trudes]

At one ball after party I fingered a girl on the dance floor then got so drunk I fell over outside my mates house and when i woke up there was frost on my clothes..

At the same party 2 of my friends were trying to woo this girl, one of them went so far as to press his boner into her hand..

Yeah, we were all class.

That's more like it! A funny story about the school ball! Surely some people had fun eh!
Geeze I'm glad I grew up in small town NZ where every bugger knew every other bugger and you were safe getting pissed and falling asleep on the footpath on your way home.

Haha, and you said in your earlier post "I don't really remember much of my school ball" - so much for wonderful memories
huh!

I remember washing someone elses puke out of my ball dress and I remember being told some of our antics of the night before.... That was enough for me actually

[PrincessBandit]

Listening to the radio (gosh, now there's an old fashioned concept for you) this morning the announcers were talking about "kids are going to do it anyway so don't be such a party pooper".

That could be said about a number of things. My take on that mentality is that you may as well not have any guidelines, high expectations, or standards for your children. It probably is hard especially for kids who want to attend the after balls but whose parents are concerned enough that they are not allowed to go. Quick, smack me now for suggesting that a parent might use the dread "N" word ("no" for anyone of you who hadn't guessed it) to little Johnny/Jenny.

Hopefully kids have a long number of years ahead of them to get laid, pissed, stoned (all the "wonderfully exciting" things us adults get to do) and it seems a foreign concept to make them have to wait for any of that.

What kind of message are we giving them by encouraging them to throw themselves into these things headlong as such a young age? Do everything you possibly can now because the world might blow up tomorrow/you might die tomorrow/everyone else is so join the queue of lemmings? A bit of a sad indictment.

Oh, what am I thinking??????!!!!!! "Everyone"'s been doing it since, "forever", how can it possibly not be ok? Us lone voices against the tide are obviously just fun nazis.....

[James Deuce]

I don't like teenagers. Never have. Even when I was one.

Fuck 'em. Make life as miserable as possible. Least we don't send them to the Trenches at 17 and a quarter any more.

[James Deuce]

If percy got stabbed I thought you would have other more pressing concerns than being on the news.

I'm pretty certain the whole point of Percy and the Knife is to get on the news.

[yungatart]

The school I work at has banned big organised after balls for years. The threat that the ball would be cancelled if an afterball was organised has been an effective deterrent....although small gatherings at someone's home has always been allowed.
The students are breath tested upon entry to the ball, and some end up being collected early by parents because of excessive alcohol consumption.
This year the BOT organised an after ball, with alcohol (4 drinks max), adult supervision etc in a secret location...it was cancelled due to lack of interest!

[MikeL]

So the wowsers and the fun-nazis want to stop school-kids drinking and shagging and fighting and doing drugs and whatever else teenagers need to do to show that they are really grown-ups and shouldn't be treated like stupid immature babies. Don't these people realise that the school ball (or more correctly, the after-ball function) is the only reason most kids stay at school for the 7th form year? And if the only thing that schools can provide is boring classes and meaningless rules there won't be any students left in the senior school, and what are we going to do with all those unemployed teachers?? So school balls must continue, for the greater good of the economy...