School Balls

[slofox]

And some of this countrie's richest people are in the liquor industry.

And some of the friggin' poorest too...(he says from the confines of his empty wine shop...)

[Trudes]

So, we've blamed the kids, the parents, the school, and now the alcohol industry in general.

Why do we have to blame anyone at all?

In every school some kids plan an afterball, if there wasn't going to be a 'school wide' afterball that it'll just be held in smaller house parties. It's going to happen regardless, school kids like to drink. Not all of them, and those kids aren't exactly forced to. It's an oppourtunity to experiment and see how you like it, great in my opinion. I knew a few school kids who could really do with a drink at school as an excuse to just free themselves up a bit.

The parents were raising their kids how they wanted to. They considered it okay for their kid to drink and that's their right. Hence the law about parents being allowed to buy their kids alcohol... A parent may raise their kid any way they want, just because another person disagrees with this doesn't mean they're wrong.

The school did what they were forced to do, punish the students for breaking the rules. No surprise there. They do have the government looking over their shoulders..

The alcohol industry is trying to make money. Any way they can, like any other hugely successful businesses. Fast food franchises kill you, cigarettes kill you, gambling ruins your life, but it's all about personal responsibility on that one. No one can say without a doubt that they advertise to underage drinkers, but with those RTD drinks etc. you'd think otherwise..

I think everyone was just being themselves, and the situation broke out like it does at every school, every year. And will do for a long time to come.

Absobloodylutely!!! (I'm outta bling, so will spot you later for that).

[Swoop]

Where will the future alcoholics come from???

Won't someone think of the alcoholics!

I used to manage a Kodak Express store and I loved the School Ball season, such farken larfs we had looking at all the dodgy photos!!!

My voyeuristic tendencies need to be satisfied!

The digital age has a LOT to answer for...

[Stirts]

The digital age has a LOT to answer for...

Farken oath it does ..... both good and bad

[MIXONE]

We didn't go to the school ball but had a party instead.Must have been a good one because just like the 60's I can't remember it.

[MikeL]

The parents were raising their kids how they wanted to. They considered it okay for their kid to drink and that's their right.

Exactly. What right has the state to interfere with a parent's choice to bring up his/her kids in any way they think fit? If I supply my teenage sons with booze, cigarettes and drugs because I can't see any real harm in these things (they haven't killed me yet), that's my business. I'm taking responsibility, not kowtowing to a government that tells me what I can and can't do.
BTW my youngest boy, aged 11, is a trained and skilled chimney sweep. Will hire him out to anybody needing a cheap and cheerful job...

[Stirts]

BTW my youngest boy, aged 11, is a trained and skilled chimney sweep. Will hire him out to anybody needing a cheap and cheerful job...

How much you charge out Sooty per hour?

[Mom]

Oooo you make a lovely Mum???????

Thank you! I actually think I have done a really good job of raising my 3 kids to the stage they are at in their lives. My eldest daughter is currently teaching Japanese and English to year 13, my son has just applied to join the Police and my youngest has attended the last school ball I will ever have to live through, and for that I am thankful.

What I actually said, if you go and read my post properly is that the parents of the kids that knowingly signed a permission slip for their kids to attend a ball on the condition there was no after ball function, and then went right ahead and let their kids attend a completely against the rules party are not setting a very good example to their offspring.

I also said that my kids would not have attended the ball if they were planning to attend the after ball. I simply would not have given my permission for them to buy a ticket to go. End of story! I actually have a bit of a reputation for being a fairly tough Mom, and as my kids get older they actually thank me for it.

I am not sure what area you live in, but up here you have to be in year 12 before there is a school ball. I am not talking about the socials that happen throught the year, I am talking the annual school ball - which is traditionally followed by an after ball function. In year 12 you would be 15 and closer to 16, at the youngest to attend.

Your post suggests I condone 14 and 15 year olds "to get nuked rotton" (sic). I need to let you know that I most certainly do not condone 14 and 15 year olds boozing at all! Neither do schools!

Any after ball function that my kids have attended has been well organised, well supervised and there has never been a problem, that is because the kids know any problems and it wont be allowed again.

I never went to a school ball as a kid, it was not my thing. My kids have all wanted to attend and I have allowed and encouraged and paid (oh how I have paid) for them to attend. I also have no problem with a well supervised after ball nor with my kids drinking under supervision, in fact I am almost to the point that I will have no say in that any more thanks to the lowered drinking age. I have raised my kids to have a healthy attitude to booze, they seem to be doing ok so far.

Be careful making broad sweeping posts like the one you did.

[Fatt Max]

Personally, I wouldnt mind my balls being held after anything.......oops, wrong thread, sorry....!

[ready4whatever]

I got trollyed at my afterball. Turned my white suit green from rolling on the grass

[Insanity_rules]

hey, where's the "I remember when...." part?

I remember when we used to drink in the carpark at the ball and throw up all over the place, ah the memories.

Personally, I wouldnt mind my balls being held after anything.......oops, wrong thread, sorry....!

I seem to remember getting mine held after the ball by my date LOL.

[ynot slow]

Funny thing my kids have been there done that.Older daughter enjoys a drink as uni students do,and enjoys a tipple or ten.Younger daughter had a drink doesn't drink (obviously got hungover and learnt lol)went to her ball this year and had one wine.Kids are all different,not all want to get pissed,most do,some don't depends on what sells papers.

[scumdog]

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?!!

I've got one about the sheila that was raped and got the pox that night.

She's not sure who it was due to being pissed and stoned - is that the makings of a better school ball/dance story?

[scumdog]

The alcohol dealers in NZ (the "entertainment" industry) sure have done a number on our society. They have trained us up from a young age to think that you can't have fun unless you are out on the town consuming their products.

Owners of alcohol import and manufacture and distribution companies are some of the richest people in NZ.

Your young children will be going to serve these people as well.

Ain't THAT the truth!!!

[oldguy]

like you lot don't know shit, How the f**k do you know it was a good after ball party, if you were so stoned and pissed you don't remember any of it, idiots.
I can still see the look in her eyes, and the tears, why because I didn't give a F**k its was suppose to be our night, in stead when your young, getting piss/stoned, and other girls.
At times I wonder what ever happened to her, always hoping things have turned out good for her in life.
The memory I have, well sometimes when I close my eyes at night I can see her tear fill eyes, some people call it Karma.
I didn't want my girls ever getting treated like that, or my son treating any girl that way.