Graduated from high school on Friday night, Monday morning I had traveled 300 miles looking for summer work to help pay for college. My parents were unable to foot any of the college bills so I was on my own with relatives providing room and board. In a couple of weeks got notified by the school that I qualified for a workship, so it was catch a bus and head out 600 miles to the school. Does that qualify for senior week?
Where to go for graduating seniors
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Sweet 16
^^8^^
I seriously had the best time of my life at senior week. We went to OC, and basically had the most amazing time. We STILL talk about all the fun we had and trouble we got into. It was awesome. I had worked my butt off to get into college, was working full time over the summer and needed a break with my friends to celebrate and have a good time. Me and 5 other girls split a suite, did a lot of partying, walked up and down the boardwalk and got invited to parties every 10 fteveryone we knew was there and its one of the best memories I have.
31 years ago for me! There were 6 of us in our condo. I wasn't interested in hanging out w/people I didn't know so we either partied at home or figured out where our friends were staying and hotel- and condo-hopped all week. We could also ride the shuttle bus up and down the strip all day/night for 50 cents so driving was rarely necessary. Good times!
SoMDGirl42
Well-Known Member
It's to prepare their liver for college.
kom526
They call me ... Sarcasmo
Didn't get out much in high school, did you? College kids do this thing every year, maybe you've heard of it, "Spring Break". I understand they get into all kinds of hijinks and hiliarities during that time frame.
Like vrai said it's a chance to go out and do things with their friends without parental intrusion. A lot of these kids have been going to school together since kindergarten and after high school they'll head their separate ways, college, military or work so why shouldn't they have a shot at doing something like this?
luvmygdaughters
Well-Known Member
When is senior week this year? My daughter is taking my grandkids to OC in June, I hope its not at the same time.
dave1959
Active Member
How about....go to work...
Railroad
Routinely Derailed
1. Local Hospital for volunteer work
2. Meals on wheels for volunteer work
3. A job interview
4. Stay home and help get the housework caught up
Sweet 16
^^8^^
It is not one specific week. It is usually the week after high school graduation and different schools graduate at different times, from late May through late June.
Well at least he will wait. Probably till right before you have a heart attack.
Here was the part that kills me the most, the kids that feel it's a "RIGHT/NEED/HAVE TO"
No it's a want, work for it and it's yours. Not give me, not "Oh I need to send my kid to senior week" No they want to be grown up, work for it. I have to work for my vacations work for yours.
You sound as fun as a canker sore. You weren't a fan of D&D were you?
I have fond memories of my OC senior week. 
We all worked through school and were either going off to college or starting full-time jobs, so it was a great time to celebrate and be together before we all headed into our new directions.
I'll be staying on the boardwalk June 7-10 and probably cussing all those seniors.
We all worked through school and were either going off to college or starting full-time jobs, so it was a great time to celebrate and be together before we all headed into our new directions. I'll be staying on the boardwalk June 7-10 and probably cussing all those seniors.
mv_princess
mv = margaritaville
No, I just don't see the NEED.
Sure I see the want, but not the NEED.
And no I never understood D&D or any video games for that matter. Some of my best memories of high school was satisfying that "NEED" to be at Daytona Beach every weekend in the spring in my junior and senior year.No, I just don't see the NEED.
Sure I see the want, but not the NEED.
Haven't you ever had that "Need" to get away?
mv_princess
mv = margaritaville
I have the want to get away, everyday.
But no don't think I have had a NEED. I have the the WANT to spend every day on a beach with a drink boy that looks amazing mostly naked.
Spring break and senior trips are a want, not a need.
Not sure where you're going with this?
mv_princess
mv = margaritaville
The seniors that say this "I NEED to go to senior week" Or the parent that "I NEED to send my child"
Railroad
Routinely Derailed
I'm sure this will come as a shock to some, but my kids (both of whom are about 30 years old) never did the Spring Break thing. My "wild" daughter didn't even have a desire to go, and my son didn't see the point in it and stayed home.
Even more shocking is that my kids were neither scarred nor underdeveloped as a result of foregoing the opportunity to travel away from home and act like jackazzez. Amazingly enough, the money not spent on booze, motel rooms, bail, gas, food, cover charges and souvenirs assisted them both, significantly, with their first years of college.
It's amazing to me that there's tacit approval by parents for kids to go do things the parents would never allow them to do around home, with all the accompanying risks, in a place far enough away for it to be a PITA for the parents to come bail the kids out or visit them in hospital.
It is a mystery to me why parents would want their kids to go out there and prove they aren't ready to be out on their own, prove that there's a reason for drinking-age laws, prove that you can get pregnant or very sick from having sex, etc.
So, yes, I really do think it's important to distinguish "want" and "need" here, and to show that although boring, staying home is the better alternative.
Even more shocking is that my kids were neither scarred nor underdeveloped as a result of foregoing the opportunity to travel away from home and act like jackazzez. Amazingly enough, the money not spent on booze, motel rooms, bail, gas, food, cover charges and souvenirs assisted them both, significantly, with their first years of college.
It's amazing to me that there's tacit approval by parents for kids to go do things the parents would never allow them to do around home, with all the accompanying risks, in a place far enough away for it to be a PITA for the parents to come bail the kids out or visit them in hospital.
It is a mystery to me why parents would want their kids to go out there and prove they aren't ready to be out on their own, prove that there's a reason for drinking-age laws, prove that you can get pregnant or very sick from having sex, etc.
So, yes, I really do think it's important to distinguish "want" and "need" here, and to show that although boring, staying home is the better alternative.
aHA! Well, obviously they're just using that word for effect because they don't really "need" to do that, they just want to. Which is fine and parents can work it out from there.
mv_princess
mv = margaritaville
You said that way better than I could.
All of mine and Larry's kids did senior week at a location other than their home. #1 went to Cancun, #2 Ocean City, I don't remember where #3 went, but #4 did Myrtle Beach. They certainly drank alcohol, although #2 insisted her hangover was caused by food poisoning . I did not approve, but let them go anyway and nobody died or got pregnant, everyone came back safe and sound.
So while you don't NEED to send your kid away for a week, nor do they NEED to go, it's like anything else that you make a decision about regarding your kids. How I got talked into it was with pure reason: #1 was going into the Army and the rest were going off to college. They would be outside my supervision within a couple of months anyway, so what's the big deal about letting them go off a bit earlier to vacation with their friends?
. I did not approve, but let them go anyway and nobody died or got pregnant, everyone came back safe and sound.So while you don't NEED to send your kid away for a week, nor do they NEED to go, it's like anything else that you make a decision about regarding your kids. How I got talked into it was with pure reason: #1 was going into the Army and the rest were going off to college. They would be outside my supervision within a couple of months anyway, so what's the big deal about letting them go off a bit earlier to vacation with their friends?
Pssst. Not every kids that goes on spring break winds up on an episode of Cops.