So my resolve not to waste time on LJ lasted a grand...two days. Whoops. XP

[marguerite_krux]

At the ripe old age of 20, I am wondering what the hell is going on with today’s youth. Muck Up Day is BRUTAL this year. Kids rampaging through rival schools, through the streets, jumping on cars, smashing things up, bashing other people up- and OMG THEY MADE BOMBS. Okay, more like incendiary devices intended to cause smoke or fire. So…not exactly Al-Qaeda. But still, we have Year 12 psychopaths-in-the-making. Whereabouts does bomb-manufacturing fall in the homicidal triad?

My own Muck Up Day- or ‘Celebration Day’ as it was renamed by the principal, so as to encourage responsible and mature behavior rather than rowdy rambunctious revelry- was fairly tame. We were all too lazy, to be honest, and couldn’t be bothered with the usual pranks. No fish oil on the lockers, no Vaseline on doorknobs, no plastic wrap over toilets and no rotten egg-throwing. How boring were we?! There was a barbecue in the morning and a concert in the afternoon, during which nobody was injured and no condom balloons were tossed around. I was nominated for ‘Most Likely to Become a Millionaire’ but lost to Sining, a 15 year old Asian kid who was the Dux. Grr. *glares* 

A rather blurry photo of a few of my classmates:

 

Katie as Britney Spears, Jess as Red Riding Hood, Mel as the Big Bad Wolf, Laura as Dorothy, me as…well, I wore the tackiest thing I could find- given that Muck Up Day traditionally encourages a sluttier mode of dress- and since it had an Oriental look to it, I called myself Mulan…Emma as Snow White and Leah in the front as a character out of a book on our reading list.

Our outfits were more along fantasy lines, rather than following the balaclava clad hoodlum theme, lol. Ah, the innocence of 20005.

The scary thing is that I read about Muck Up Day antics in the paper and scoffed at it from a safe detached distance but then I was talking about it with friends and family and heard stories that hit closer to home.

Some kid broke into my old high school, didn’t realize he’d set off the silent alarms- or was too drunk to care- and the security guards caught him literally with his pants down, urinating on the principal’s desk! *facepalm* Omfg, the moron. That was awful but kind of funny, you gotta admit.

This, however, isn’t- some kid, also from my old school, made a bomb. Seriously, wtf? We don’t need religious extremists to take us out, it’s our own youth who’re going to manage that just fine in the future. And? A teacher at my mother’s school was attacked by students from another school while she was on duty in the cafeteria. She wasn’t seriously hurt, they shoved her around but didn’t full on bash her or anything, BUT STILL. It’s awful enough it happened at all, but to know that my mother was on duty earlier and that it could have been her…ugh. *shudders*

I’m not pretending kids in my day never pulled stupid stunts but they certainly didn’t go around bashing up teachers. A group of girls- GIRLS FCOL- seriously injured a principal when he got in between them and their target, a female student at a different school- they broke his frakking ribs. That’s just so scary. Before, you could count on teachers for safety if you were being bullied, but now that their authority means NOTHING to these little monsters, what do you do? I’m so glad I’m not at high school anymore.