Ruh-roh! Teenagers Are Being Banned from the Atlantic Terminal Mall
The Local picked up a thread from the Brooklyn Tech bulletin board. Seems that kids need to be accompanied by someone 21 years or older. As you may recall, there’ve been some problems with unaccompanied teens getting into trouble, especially when cheap chicken wings have been involved.
The Local picked up a thread from the Brooklyn Tech bulletin board. Seems that kids need to be accompanied by someone 21 years or older. As you may recall, there’ve been some problems with unaccompanied teens getting into trouble, especially when cheap chicken wings have been involved.
“Just where, as a community, do we think they should go? Who is going to open their doors to kids?”
When I finshed school I’d go home and get going on with my homework, it takes plenty of time. How on earth these kids think they have time to go off cavorting around I have no idea. I know from the amout of homework my daughter has that NTC schools didn’t suddenely stop giving it out.
why do teens have to be paid to do Something? Why not volunteer somewhere. Those same elderly people they shove out of there way they could provide some much needed company during the day. Look in on. Run a few errands for,etc.
Bfarwell, might sound like freakish control to you, but we never got into the kind of trouble our friends from school did. It involves keeping your kid safe ,while teaching them how to navigate a not so nice world. You don’t sit back on your ass and demand that teachers and the police department do it for you.
The masses want kids or not yet no one wants to parent,because *insert whining* it’s too hard….
Seconding InsertSnappyNameHere – I’ve seen the kids do group swoop-attacks on each other there – nothing where real violence is intended, clearly, but still, being surrounded by a large group of rampaging teenaged boys throwing stuff at each other is scary, especially when it comes totally out of nowhere in an otherwise unexceptional location.
Banning anyone below 21 is ridiculous, though, since the troublemakers are all clearly a lot younger than that. Actually having better security would help a lot more.
Pink Clamm, that sounds like nightmarish control-freakydom, not ‘good parenting.’ though again, imho.
I worked in a mall (in the food court, no less) and they’ve always been a teen hangout local. If it wasn’t malls, it would be somewhere else. Teens are teens, they hang out because they’re figuring out their social shit, if they’re causing trouble, tell them to shove off, whatever. bfd.
Parks are great in the warm weather, not so great in January. My local mall is Newport in Jersey City. There are of lots of teens, lots of non-teen shoppers, and lots of security. Everyone seems to be fine and it obviously is very popular with kids.
5000 students at Brooklyn Tech. And the administration discourages them from going into Ft. Greene Park because some have been mugged/beaten up. I corresponded with the principal, arguing that it’s a very safe place, but he said it was trouble for Tech students. My daughter grew up in Clinton Hill, now Bed-Stuy, and knows how to handle herself in the park; maybe some kids don’t.
ah okay, figured out just now tech is the school near there.
*rob*
what is a “tech teen?” ive seen this posted numerous times in this thread.
and heather, HA! spot on!
i was an uber nerd in school and always spent hours and hours on homework, but uh, yeah, sometimes i liked to go chill at the mall with my friends.
*rob*
I was a tech teen.. And we didn’t hang out in AC but we hung out a lot of other places, outside Sams and Pipitones pizzerias, at academy diner, at the Chinese store. Anyone noticing a trend??? Kids leave school and flock towards FOOD because public school food is a crock of —-. Most kids vacate the area to go home between 4 and 4:30 anyway to beat their parents home. This needing a parent rule is kinda overkill.
Then again maybe we should think about the fact that tech is no normal sized school. 4,000 kids all leaving school at one time and even if its only hundreds of them descending on the mall it has to be a little rowdy but i still think its too be expected.