BALI has gone berserk with schoolies – with the teens’ disregard for terrorism warnings just as crazy as their drunken partying.
Thousands of overly excited schoolies making the pilgrimage abroad have touched down in Bali despite Australian Government warnings that there is a high chance they could become victims of a terrorist attack.
While Queensland’s Gold Coast remained the preferred choice to celebrate school’s end, an increasing number of Year 12 students are choosing Bali as their schoolies venue.
It is estimated that 6000 Australian school-leavers will pour into the region over the next three weeks to revel in the 32-degree heat.
Cheap airfares and accommodation, low-price booze and cigarettes, a lack of parental supervision and no enforcement of a drinking age means the first taste freedom for schoolies partying under neon lights is even sweeter.
via Sex, drugs, cheap beer and ignorance – schoolies completely lose it in Bali | News.com.au.
Hard to patrol when the kids are in another country, I guess they will learn from their mistakes!
A Swan Hill Rotary club has organised an Alternative Schoolies Trip to Thailand where Year 12s and adult volunteers will build at an orphanage and rescue centre for stateless youth. The students have raised thousands for the project but will still have a great time riding elephants with the kids and white water rafting. We need to offer more of such alcohol free but very worthwhile experiences.
These people are totally ignorant.If School Leavers Week Packages to Penang or Singapore existed I would personally encourage under the circumstances about the warnings for Bali to have taken one of those assuming the parents are paying for it and the kids have been working since they were fourteen for the spending money part Months ago.Over there they don’t have a leavers week as such the minute you graduate high school It’s usually straight to work the minute you enter the big world,make the money and do the holidays in your own time.