It's my birthday today, so me and my friend toddled off to Frankie and Benny's for a chilled out evening. All was going well until a group of around 30 children of around eleven years of age suddenly descended on the place and took up an entire wall of tables. There were adults with them, in fact one old bloke was videoing them, while the children were shouting, screaming and bouncing on the chairs. Everybody in the place that wasn't part of this troop ended up staring mortified at them as you couldn't speak to each other over the racket. They then began popping all the balloons in the room, whether they were on their tables, or those of others who were eating there, it made no difference to them. The girl who tried to get at the balloons on my table was given short thrift and sent away as in a piqué of attempting to keep some me lance of this being my birthday meal I wanted to keep the balloons attached to the table. Chatting to one of the waitresses, it turned out this assault on the senses was a prom night outing. They had turned up half an hour early and there tables was not completely ready. The adults with the group turned out to be the teachers. This rabble of unruly brats spoilt what would have been a nice evening for us, and did nothing for demonstrating how to keep control of children on an outing. It appeared that the teachers did nothing whatsoever apart from watch the mayhem unfold. Call me old fashioned, but since when did eleven year olds have a prom night? Or however old these little rat bags were on leaving junior school. When I was a kid we had a school disco, at least the only adults to be inconvenienced were the teachers and the parents, unlike this rabble of rungs who ruined the nights of a good few paying customers tonight. If we hadn't already ordered and been sat waiting for our main we would have left minutes after it became obvious that the teachers had no interest in trying to keep any sense of control over the group.

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Happy Birthday Roobarb:happybday: put your date of birth in your profile so we all know when it is and if you want to keep your age a secret leave out the year:biggrin:

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Nice one Gary your a star!

 

Ok back to the thread, I can only feel your frustration on your night out be it a quick meal or a slap up do there is no respect these days and yes I know I am sounding like an old f*rt but why the hell do kids get better respect then adults baffles me.

 

I see every day the descending age of childhood, when I was 12 or 13yrs old I could not wait to be "grown up" leave school and be old enough to drive a car.... but no I had to wait, no short cuts.

 

Not now, I think its so sad these kids are part of the this "shrinking childhood syndrome" where they have learnt to demand access to all manner of things that was once the preserve of "grown ups" Prom nights is just one of these occassions, 14, 15, 16 year olds have end of term do`s that clearly are an Americanism and have stretched limo`s Hummers, hundreds of £ss spent on dresses and suits, it really is the thin end of the wedge with most 17 year old having new or nearly new cars I have grave worries for their future, after all what have they to aspire to? nothing... they have had it all before they are 20yrs old, it is no wonder they don`t respect grown ups because the grown ups have become the children been told what the score is by their own minors.... and now teachers..... no don`t get me started on teachers!!

Jeff

Nice one Gary your a star!

 

Ok back to the thread, I can only feel your frustration on your night out be it a quick meal or a slap up do there is no respect these days and yes I know I am sounding like an old f*rt but why the hell do kids get better respect then adults baffles me.

 

I see every day the descending age of childhood, when I was 12 or 13yrs old I could not wait to be "grown up" leave school and be old enough to drive a car.... but no I had to wait, no short cuts.

 

Not now, I think its so sad these kids are part of the this "shrinking childhood syndrome" where they have learnt to demand access to all manner of things that was once the preserve of "grown ups" Prom nights is just one of these occassions, 14, 15, 16 year olds have end of term do`s that clearly are an Americanism and have stretched limo`s Hummers, hundreds of £ss spent on dresses and suits, it really is the thin end of the wedge with most 17 year old having new or nearly new cars I have grave worries for their future, after all what have they to aspire to? nothing... they have had it all before they are 20yrs old, it is no wonder they don`t respect grown ups because the grown ups have become the children been told what the score is by their own minors.... and now teachers..... no don`t get me started on teachers!!

Jeff

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I HATE americanism of our country nearly as much as all the immigrants over here trying to change our ways. The thing is all prom nights on American films are normally held in their school's sports hall so why cant it be the same over here?

 

P.S. Teachers havent got a ****ing clue these days

I HATE americanism of our country nearly as much as all the immigrants over here trying to change our ways. The thing is all prom nights on American films are normally held in their school's sports hall so why cant it be the same over here?

 

P.S. Teachers havent got a ****ing clue these days

Proms ain't all that bad, I gave a lift to a 16 year old rather attractive girl with mahoosive knockers, and her two lovely friends to their prom, in the zed, with the roof off :) There were loads of people stood outside their limos waiting for their picture to be taken, but the photographers were only interested in the zed :lol:

Proms ain't all that bad, I gave a lift to a 16 year old rather attractive girl with mahoosive knockers, and her two lovely friends to their prom, in the zed, with the roof off :) There were loads of people stood outside their limos waiting for their picture to be taken, but the photographers were only interested in the zed :lol:

Considering I'm probably the youngest person on here (no offence intended and correct me if I'm wrong!) - even just a few years ago when I was at school (finished in 2005), mine was nothing like this.

 

We had no proms - until our end of school prom/ball/massive party at the end of year 11 when we all finished, which was held in our school hall. We had a disco (which was also always held on site so didn't really matter how much noise we made) or a day out (to a theme park or something) - maybe once or twice a year. Our school was fairly strict so we were never allowed to run off or make too much noise or do stupid stuff, as that would be "bringing the school into disrepute" or something, and we'd end up with loads of detentions when we got back!!!

 

Agreed, the Americanism of todays young society is massively over the top, with the giant Hummers and pink sparkly limos and all the rest of that crap...

Considering I'm probably the youngest person on here (no offence intended and correct me if I'm wrong!) - even just a few years ago when I was at school (finished in 2005), mine was nothing like this.

 

We had no proms - until our end of school prom/ball/massive party at the end of year 11 when we all finished, which was held in our school hall. We had a disco (which was also always held on site so didn't really matter how much noise we made) or a day out (to a theme park or something) - maybe once or twice a year. Our school was fairly strict so we were never allowed to run off or make too much noise or do stupid stuff, as that would be "bringing the school into disrepute" or something, and we'd end up with loads of detentions when we got back!!!

 

Agreed, the Americanism of todays young society is massively over the top, with the giant Hummers and pink sparkly limos and all the rest of that crap...

the world 'or possibly just this and a few other countries' is heading in a dark direction :-( it saddens me to bring my child up in this environment :-(

the world 'or possibly just this and a few other countries' is heading in a dark direction :-( it saddens me to bring my child up in this environment :-(

Im not sticking up for teachers, except me, as i am one in a college, where i am known by the students for being the stern one in the team....

 

As proof, we have removed the February half term from our second semester, not very americanised eh?? :D

 

So were not all clueless idiots ;)

 

Please be less general about the entire teaching community or i may cry and get the bully to beat you up at the prom! :P

Edited July 3, 201213 yr by Blackpool-z32

Im not sticking up for teachers, except me, as i am one in a college, where i am known by the students for being the stern one in the team....

 

As proof, we have removed the February half term from our second semester, not very americanised eh?? :D

 

So were not all clueless idiots ;)

 

Please be less general about the entire teaching community or i may cry and get the bully to beat you up at the prom! :P

Edited July 3, 201213 yr by Blackpool-z32

To be fair to my learners though, they are all pretty good, most likely because its Higher Education and they have to pay to be there ha ha :)

 

But if they are not good, or creating a nuisance in the class, they are reminded where they are, or kindly asked to leave until they can be a productive part of the class. (I think thats the bit they think im stern on...?)

 

 

I thought prom nights only occured for High school leavers though? this prom for Primary shool leavers thing doesnt happen round my area im sure??

 

Sorry to hear it spoilt your birthday though, you'd have thought they would have booked for a time in the middle of the day or something if it was a group of kids :s

Edited July 3, 201213 yr by Blackpool-z32

To be fair to my learners though, they are all pretty good, most likely because its Higher Education and they have to pay to be there ha ha :)

 

But if they are not good, or creating a nuisance in the class, they are reminded where they are, or kindly asked to leave until they can be a productive part of the class. (I think thats the bit they think im stern on...?)

 

 

I thought prom nights only occured for High school leavers though? this prom for Primary shool leavers thing doesnt happen round my area im sure??

 

Sorry to hear it spoilt your birthday though, you'd have thought they would have booked for a time in the middle of the day or something if it was a group of kids :s

Edited July 3, 201213 yr by Blackpool-z32

Happy Birthday Roobarb:happybday: put your date of birth in your profile so we all know when it is and if you want to keep your age a secret leave out the year:biggrin:

 

I'm now 21 and 1/4 :biggrin: ........................................ Of a century !! :blink:

Happy Birthday Roobarb:happybday: put your date of birth in your profile so we all know when it is and if you want to keep your age a secret leave out the year:biggrin:

 

I'm now 21 and 1/4 :biggrin: ........................................ Of a century !! :blink:

WOW

 

I would love to see the kids post on Facebook.

 

"Prom was great BUT there was a real old miserable git in Frankie and Bennys"

 

:laugh::laugh:

 

Kids are kids and we were no better WAAAAAAAAAAAAY Back then :thumbup1:

WOW

 

I would love to see the kids post on Facebook.

 

"Prom was great BUT there was a real old miserable git in Frankie and Bennys"

 

:laugh::laugh:

 

Kids are kids and we were no better WAAAAAAAAAAAAY Back then :thumbup1:

love the Tesco Value avatar Mick :D

love the Tesco Value avatar Mick :D