Remember how you thought high school would be great if you didn’t have any classes or exams and just had study halls all day? That’s like work, except you get paid and you don’t have to go to the library to use the computer. You know I think I actually have less work to do at work than I did in HS. Definitely less than college.
HS was awful. You spend all day in classes and when you finally get home after chorus/band/sports, you have hours of homework to do. Then there’s worrying about exams, boys/girls, drama, acne, being skinny, SATs, college… Doesn’t anyone remember how much being a teenager sucked?
Brandy wrote a post the other day, about how in certain areas, malls don’t let teenagers in on Friday and Saturday nights without an adult. Article here.
What the hell are the kids supposed to do??? When I was a teenager, the mall was the only place we could go. Why do they think teens hang out there? Would they rather the teens go hang out at a park around little kids? Maybe in front of the movie theater? They don’t have the means to make enough money to go into the city to see a show or have their own place to hang out at. They’re stuck.
Discrimination against teenagers is a lot worse than people realize. No one cares about them because all they see are the bad ones. What about the straight A students, the ones feeding the homeless, the ones working a part time job to help out their family? There are many teenagers out there that are better citizens than adults. Just because a few teenagers are annoying and go to the mall and never spend any money, we punish the rest? I hope they all join gangs and go on crime sprees.
And don’t think this won’t effect the rest of us. “Excuse me little girl, you need an adult with you to shop.” “I’m 23 you ass!”
Oh goodness…. that’s pretty retarded on how malls are trying to ‘restrict’ teens now?? I highly doubt that it will win the battle. You’re right; give teens a break… most of them are there for leisure, for business and for fun. There’s only those dumb handfuls that go to create ruckus for business but even they have some level of sensibility.
It’s true… teens are always the ones who are neglected, and if anything, mostly scrutinized.
Yeah… This sounds so familiar because a year ago, I believe, they tried to do something like that at this place(it’s not technically a mall), but there were a lot of protests and such with that, so they decided not to enforce it. It was pretty much like what Brandy stated, about teenagers not being allowed there Friday and Saturday nights.
LOL, yep, I pretty much hated being a teenager too. Hehe.
I don’t know what I would have done if I didn’t have a mall I could go to. Even for work, what are they going to say when you WORK there?! You are on break and they try and tell you go to home? Lol. I’m not a teenager anymore, but I still get treated as one because I look younger :P
Do the malls not realize that teenagers have the most money to spend? They have no bills to pay or any responsibility except for school related things. I work in retail and see loads of high school students fork up $100 or more on their little shopping excursion. Sometimes I wonder if they even go to school or simply skip out for a few hours.
LOL. Just like I said in my post, I’m 50/50 on it. Not fair, but then again, it’s beneficial for the people who get annoyed by the teenagers who loiter around.
I think a lot of the stores in the mall are going to suffer – especially Aero, AE, Hot Topic, etc.. because a majority of their sales come from teens!
Yeah, school is a pain in the ass and teaches you how to be extremely time inefficient. In the real world there are benefits to learning and doing work in as short a period of time as possible. Out in the world if you can pick up a complicated skill in a day without practicing or putting any effort into it, you’re going to succeed. How does this translate to school? You’re usually given work on a mandatory basis regardless of what you actually know, and tests are often artificial or just plain wrong. (The old SAT that I took was flat out wrong in many areas, paticularly analogies. This opinion was later validated when they removed them from the test.)
Keeping teens out of malls is a bad idea. Maybe we should just ban tall people from movie theaters, too. There are also ridiculous ways to work around it, such as having a single 21 year old with your group of friends. That is what they’d do, too. Anyway, it seems to me that this rule would fail if it were seriously challenged in court, since it does not hinge upon safety or legal concerns, and any teens causing an actual disturbance could already be removed by security. There is no extra law necessary for that. You pretty much can’t enforce any loitering rules in the commons areas of a mall because the mall was essentially designed to be loitered in.
That’s very silly. Why would anyone want to cut out part of their profit margin?! o.O What happened to capitalism and consumerism?
I was a mall rat only in my mid to late teens, so I may not be part of the market that ups the revenue of malls in my hometown. Actually when I was a teenager, the only hang out place that seemed to be valid for our ages at the time was the mall and in school.. and I mention school because no one except for seniors were allowed to go out of campus until dismissal time. Sure, on weekends,there was the underage clubbing and the sleepovers at someone’s house, but it was still quite limited. There is kinda no worming around it. To impose that ban would just be silly. Apparently, the ones who are proposing this have not been teenagers since the Mesolithic period.
Luckily I’ve been able to attend online high school and can work at my own pace, whether thats faster or slower.
I’m not much of a mall person, so I guess I really wouldn’t understand to have this new rule put in place.