Schoolies
I stand before you today to argue that schoolies does deserve the bad reputation it has been given. To some people, schoolies week is seen as a week during the year where you can take the time to relax, to un wind and to just feel the weight being lifted off your shoulders after exams but to others, it is seen as a dangerous environment where nothing is achieved and numerous amount of brain cells die in the process of this vigorous celebration.
Schoolies is promoted by a website that delivers the message that ‘this year will be the safest year yet’ and how schoolies is a week of celebration not disaster. Embarrassing as this is, these statements are sadly wrong. The main problems faced on schoolies are consumption of dangerous amounts of alcohol, drug use, unsafe sex practices, violence, sexual assault, drink spiking, toolies and in recent statistics even death. When we read articles in newspapers about schoolies we expect to see positive feedback, not incidents such as 30 arrests in one night due to a number of different factors. For schools to be seen as a safe environment is awfully wrong, what it really shows are sensible young adults turned into immature teens that cannot handle a get away.
Although many new laws have been enforced in Queensland and all over the nation about schoolies and hotel rooms, heights seem to be a schoolies worst enemy. A shocking statistic shows us that at least 1 teenager has died every year from the previous few years and in the last 2 years 6 teens have dies on schoolies from falls, electrocutions and drowning. Why are schoolies dying on what is supposed to be a trip of a lifetime? Most of these fatalities have been cause by drunken teenagers that aim to impress by their dare devil stunts which soon turn terrible. For instance the shocking death of 17 year old Isabelle Colman who plunged to her death from her gold coast hotel. The death comes as a warning to teens that having fun is one thing but losing control is another. Most
Schoolies is promoted by a website that delivers the message that ‘this year will be the safest year yet’ and how schoolies is a week of celebration not disaster. Embarrassing as this is, these statements are sadly wrong. The main problems faced on schoolies are consumption of dangerous amounts of alcohol, drug use, unsafe sex practices, violence, sexual assault, drink spiking, toolies and in recent statistics even death. When we read articles in newspapers about schoolies we expect to see positive feedback, not incidents such as 30 arrests in one night due to a number of different factors. For schools to be seen as a safe environment is awfully wrong, what it really shows are sensible young adults turned into immature teens that cannot handle a get away.
Although many new laws have been enforced in Queensland and all over the nation about schoolies and hotel rooms, heights seem to be a schoolies worst enemy. A shocking statistic shows us that at least 1 teenager has died every year from the previous few years and in the last 2 years 6 teens have dies on schoolies from falls, electrocutions and drowning. Why are schoolies dying on what is supposed to be a trip of a lifetime? Most of these fatalities have been cause by drunken teenagers that aim to impress by their dare devil stunts which soon turn terrible. For instance the shocking death of 17 year old Isabelle Colman who plunged to her death from her gold coast hotel. The death comes as a warning to teens that having fun is one thing but losing control is another. Most