Opinion: Rites of passage exist for a reason - they may look a little different this year but rest assured: you can always make up for it later. Contrary to popular belief, you're never too old | michaelkoziol
There's nothing like hearing your editor thinks you're "too old" to write persuasively about the end of high school to motivate you to put pen to paper.
It makes for a rather flat introduction to adulthood - on top of the anxiety that accompanies this economically and emotionally challenging time. Apparently my icebreaker involved banter about high school debating. "We thought it was funny that you mentioned debating," Hannah goes on. "None of us mentioned anything about debating."
Truth be told, I don't remember much of schoolies. My year 12 formal was forgettable: I took a very obliging girl who either didn't realise or didn't care that I was clearly gay. But like everything about adolescence, the HSC included, it all seemed very important at the time.Wolter Peeters "When I think about that time, the summer before university, it was fun, but the real formative time was first-year uni," says Hannah.Still, what would we know? We're both 30 now. I thought it prudent to consult someone who still had year 12 fresh in his memory. Sebastian Wilson graduated from Shore School in 2018; he's 19 now and in his first year of a double degree at the University of Technology.
But COVID's destruction or reduction of those rites of passage for graduating year 12s opens an opportunity to consider what we could do differently to mark the occasion. Arne Rubinstein, who runs the Byron Bay-based Rites of Passage Institute, has been thinking about that exact question for 25 years.
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