Editorial on schoolies week (B+)

“Schoolies week” tagged bad
Schoolies, a week of fun and entertainment for thousands of school-leaving students from all over Queensland, NSW and even as far as Victoria. It’s a week of holiday and more of less a giant party for students celebrating the end of there 12 years of schooling. It’s a week for them to relax and enjoy themselves and “do what they want”
Although it’s a week intended to be fun and enjoyable, due to the massive influx of people crime seem to be a big issue for people who attend schoolies. Schoolies has been given a bad name from the many incidents that occur during this week, such as stabbings, assaults, and alcohol related crimes. Should the actions of a few stupid people give the whole schoolies week a bad name? Why should this school-leavers tradition be shut down if it’s not them causing the problems? It’s been proven that most of these serious incidents are committed by older people previous schoolies students that have come back. ...