Title: Schoolies week - Wikipedia
Headings: Schoolies week
Schoolies week
Contents
History
Locations
Official Schoolies events
Toolies and foolies
Criticism
Problems and risks
Alcohol and other drugs
Sex
Violence
Injuries and death
Red Frogs network
Popular culture
See also
References
External links

Content: Foolies" refers to younger adolescents, who participate in Schoolies week but have not yet graduated from high school. Schoolies week is seen as a final party with schoolmates before they head their separate ways. Contents
1 History
2 Locations
3 Official Schoolies events
4 Toolies and foolies
5 Criticism
6 Problems and risks
6.1 Alcohol and other drugs
6.2 Sex
6.3 Violence
6.4 Injuries and death
7 Red Frogs network
8 Popular culture
9 See also
10 References
11 External links
History
Schoolies week first began on the Gold Coast, Queensland in the late 1970s, in the week following final exams for private single-sex schools. The Broadbeach Hotel was the main meeting place. Schoolies Week events began to be organised for 1980, and from then on the Gold Coast attracted schoolies from all over Australia for celebrations. Since then, the tradition has spread, and Australian high-school graduates celebrate their graduation with a week-long party at many popular tourist destinations around the country. Schoolies week is considered by many teenagers in Australia as a cultural rite of passage. Schoolies week is seen as transitional period from youth to adulthood, marking a change of state from the imposition of school discipline to the chosen freedom to have a body which is out of control. According to the Official National Schoolies Week Website, "The most-enduring Schoolies-week tradition is the first run down the beach and dive into the ocean after school is finished forever. That plunge of freedom is the essence of freedom which Schoolies symbolises."