re: Did you go on Spring Break with other kids (no parents) in high school?

PCB mid 80's Damn that was fun It's like I sneezed and now I'm 52.

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PCB Jr and Sr year. Good times.

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Jr/sr year

Spring break 02 was litttt

No, partially to being an outsider to a degre and partially because I had sports going on that time of the year.


Our track coach would always schedule a meet to be hosted by us that week in an attempt to try and limit the number of his guys who would go off and do something stupid.


Granted, it didn’t always work out. One year three of our throwers / football linemen went to watch the baseball team play our rival school. The two big ones heckled the opposition so some of their guys stalked the little one and kicked the shite out of him later that night.

Our coach suspended all three guys for poor sportsmanship, leading to a bunch of jokes about the third guy getting suspended for having his arse kicked through no fault of his own.

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Of course I got a Spring Break but if I went anywhere it was skiing or beach with parents.

That underage drinking thread has high schools in it.

No way were my parents dumb enough to let 16-17 year old me go to beach alone for a week with a few baws.

There is a time and place for everything and its called college.

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So I attended one of the high schools that was listed in that thread.

A lot of folks from that part of the country, and especially the Catholic schools, go to the Panhandle somewhere for spring break. Parents usually take their kids growing up, and by the time they're sophomores or juniors in high school, they are going with their parents but spending all their time with their friends (whose parents are also down there). The kids would go off and do their own thing, which often included drinking (and fighting, which I imagine that's what the arrests are for).

By senior year, pretty much everyone goes by themselves. There might be a parent or two around, but usually not. I know some of those towns have really cracked down since then, but that whole stretch was full of guys from my school. I went with a crew to Cancun my senior year to get away from all that madness.

It was - and I am sure still is - a testosterone-fueled and large all boys high school with a huge drinking culture. Lots of dudes would get really rowdy and in trouble. There is a YouTube video that went viral of some guys from our high school that got into a massive brawl at a hotel in, I think, Panama City some years ago. I am not surprised at all to see our name on that list.

Apparently some guys from that list have already had college scholarships yanked, which has also happened before.

Went alone sophmore, Junior and senior year. Friends parents had a condo in Panama City. We probably had like 20 people in that thing.

Club La Vela(or Velveeta as we called it) every night. Basically drinking from the time we woke up until we passed out. I'm surprised no one was arrested or died. Although a kid from my school did die driving home from Florida one year b/c everyone was wasted.

I went at 17, Panama City Beach in its prime... was insanity.

didn't do a Sr trip in HS
Never did spring break in FL in college.

Did go float the Buffalo River one year for spring break tho. enjoyed it.