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Nice to see the Glenbard West youth out in force last night and so excited about the start of school.
What's up with a gang of about 100 kids roaming up and down Crescent from the high school to Main Street, blowing horns, pounding on store windows, and marking up sidewalks and store fronts.
A couple of GE police squad cars were dispatched to follow them and then the officers were on their PA asking them to leave school property immediately as the gang started up the Glenbard West driveway.
This did not look to be a random occurrence by a few kids, but an organized event.
What happened to the puppy faced youths rallying at the football field asking the community (and local merchants) for more money the last few years?
Happens every year the day b4 school starts. This year seemed a tad bit more organized and destructive. They usually just hang out in the park and get rowdy around 2 or 3 AM.
Posts: 9128 | Location: CLEA | Registered: November 04, 2004
Officially called the "Senior march", this tradition involves many alcoholic beverages prior to meeting at the boat house. It is meant to be a tradition of students celebrating the fact that it is their senior year. Every year it seems to get slightly more destructive. The last week of summer is spent frantically trying to collect enough alcohol for this event. Many, many years ago seniors used to camp out overnight and greet the freshmen in the morning with harmless hazing pranks.
Not that I am aware of, remember we do not attend West. My daughter's best friend since 1st grade moved to Glen Ellyn. My daughter was at her house over the weekend and witnessed a large group of West students working diligently to acquire the beverages necessary for the Senior march to be a success. I miss those days.....
Don't their parents question where they are or what their doing? Parents seem to be too afraid these days to ask questions-they want to be their kid's friends.
Don't know the answer to that one, however, if asked I am sure that the teen replies "to the senior march". That appears harmless enough, I doubt any of them said "to get really drunk and vandalize the downtown." I am the worlds meanest parent. My kids did not see a PG13 movie until they were 13, R rated when 17. I read every email and have my own myspace account so I can monitor my kids as well as get an idea as to what sort of friends they have. One of my kids will most likely terrorize society for life, the other ones will most likely make the world a better place.
voteno...please stop talking negatively about that one kid you have that just isn't up to par with the rest of em...I hope one day that he proves you wrong and outdoes the rest.
I've seen it happen more times than not.
We never had this senior walk or march before...I guess I went to school before walking became fashionable...or marching for that matter.
voteno - so YOU are the meanest parent huh? I thought it was me! Actually that is what my oldest kid tells me just about every day. Must admit, you've got me beat on the PG-13 thing (she saw a few already and she's not 13).
My question is, don't these parents question where their kid is when they stay out so late? And quite frankly, it would take only a small amount of effort to drive or walk downtown to Main St. and see what is going on while they do their "march." Why didn't anybody see this before it got out of hand?
M2C - I hope he proves me wrong as well but until he takes personal responsibility for his actions and future that won't happen. Unless youhave been in that situation I suggest you not judge. He causes chaos in our house on a regular basis. The younger ones are being short changed on attention and money because so much has gone into him. I won't even start on the example he sets for them. I am tired of being woken up at 2:00 A.M. by a phone call or the police at the door. Worse yet is imagining him dead somewhere. He has no respect or consideration for others. I cannot leave work everyday to go meet with the Dean. If his act is not cleaned up by spring he is on his own, out of the house. It is time for tough love, agree or disagree, it is a situation one cannot possibly understand until they have lived it.
Just to clear up the origins of this event, it all started out many years ago as an extra credit project for students in a senior honors American History class. It is a reenactment of a civil war era army camp and Sherman's March to the Sea in 1864.
Students bivouac in the park over night and recreate the usual activities of an army camp, namely drinking and debauchery.
Just like civil war army regulars were forbidden from drinking, this is an exercise in resourcefulness in finding ways to stealthfully fulfill their desires for alcohol.
I'm not too old that I don't remember my HS days, but to say these kids are out for harmless, educational good times is not what I have witnessed over the last several years. Given my home's proximity to the school, I have had the pleasure of watching this monster grow bigger, louder and seemingly angrier each year. Used to happen around 2 AM...earlier lately. Seems the police are trying to temper it a bit.
All in all...I don't give a crap unless they wake me up. Party on, '07 Bitches!!
Posts: 9128 | Location: CLEA | Registered: November 04, 2004
voteno - I sympathize with you. We have an "adult" member of our family who shall remain unnamed....He was always a pain in the ***, and disrupted MANY family events all his life with his constant run-ins with other kids' parents, the cops, etc. Our parents put up with it, even coddled the guy all his life. My sisters college graduation was ruined when he got drunk and made a scene. Stuff like that. It was always somebody else's fault and my parents 'just didn't understand him.'
He still walks through life expecting a handout from them. The rest you can pretty much figure out. We love him, but we've had to set firm boundaries. Especially now that the rest of us are married and have kids to think of. My parents admit now that they wish they'd been more firm when he was younger.
Best of luck to you. Sounds like you are dealing with it the best way you know how.
Watch the Dog Whisperer-what holds true for training dogs can easily apply to kids. I am dead serious. You don't let them know your the "Alpha" they will run all over you.
"Everyone thinks their opinion matters. Don't argue with a nobody. A farmer doesn't bother telling a pig his breath smells like s***."
hi vote no...whatever you do,PLEASE send him on his way by spring if that is what you said...and the USMC is a great idea. I have 2 brothers who caused plenty of trouble and were never given a firm hand by my parents...to their detrement and the rest of us. how old is he? time to fly...PLEASE LET HIM!!!! as for the senior march...ask the parents to join in! ala post prom!!!!
Must admit, you've got me beat on the PG-13 thing (she saw a few already and she's not 13). 
