Opinion: Shore challenges won't earn you entry to adult world
When I read through the challenges, apparently written by the boys at Shore school, I see the intentions behind the words. Many of these challenges are – for the most part – the sorts of things I found funny too as an 18-year-old boy.
There are also those challenges which are clearly attempts to enter the adult world: "win $50+ on the slaps", "Rail a cap", "Shoey a whole beer". Again, I have done most of these things.But then there are those that reflect the social structures of the world these boys are in. Spitting on a homeless person reeks of a class privilege where value and worth is attached to money.
But this is not a completely bewildering prank sheet which speaks only of the entitlement of private school boys. Because it is something a group of Year 6 public school kids knew too.
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