Unfortunately that's common everywhere. People live by national landmarks, national and state parks and so on for their entire lives but never visit them. We don't take the time to appreciate the things around us enough. We don't respect the things that we love and enjoy.
The schools should hold their seniors accountable. They need to come here on a Saturday at 4am and clean the entire beach before sunrise. Failure to show up means you don’t walk for graduation.
What's the problem? This planet is ours to do with what we will, it's not as if we can affect the environment at all. You liberals can cry all you want, I stand by these proud conservative students.
@@veniagivenchy1532 it's not about obeying, it's about morality.the morals that we were taught, we (as a society) forgot to teach them to the next generation. We don't hold them to the same set of consequences to their actions. Some of it is because we ( as a society) had to work and more children are left at home with little to no supervision. We all have consequences to our actions but these generation coming up have figured out that we will cover for their mistakes and only reward them for doing good. But nothing when not doing the right things.
I said the same thing. But mine was like 20 years ago. I'm a resident of Florida and this pisses me off so bad. I make it a rule, every time I go to the beach I pick up a bag of trash when I leave. But when I go to the State Park that rule doesn't really work cuz the state Park's just too clean. Nothing to really pick up.
Those kids are gonna get a rude awakening for the lack of respect they’ve displayed. Not only did they do this once but twice? Absolutely disgusting behavior.
As someone the age to be a college senior this is disgusting, they oughta know better. Hope they know the danger they've put our beautiful oceans and creatures in. I hope someone gets blame for this, they need to be persecuted for this
It’s not just how they trash the beach, you can see disrespect from so many teens and young adults in all their daily interactions. Whether they were not taught any better or they just think they have a right a right to act how ever they want it’s common everywhere. Disgraceful.
That’s total Bs. My 19 year old is on his 3rd promotion, worked full time since he was 17, still graduated from hs, and was a state champion fb player. He now has a lease. It’s not the kids, it’s you terrible parents. Point that finger in the right direction.
@@lolitaalmostgrown oooh it's these "kids" (a.k.a young adults kuz let's b real, actual kids are from the ages 8 to 12) ... An they are out of control these days.
@@lolitaalmostgrown this shows that you are a responsible parent, congratulations on a job well done. However in today’s society parents like you are few and far between. The fact that those kids destroyed that beach the way they did shows the kind of parents and home life they are from. Unfortunately many parents have to work to make ends meet but parenting is still necessary and a job that must be done. No escaping it never the less.
Not to mention kids in the USA get free meals at school . In contrast to schools in other sections of the world, where kids can’t even get an education let alone get a meal .
@@db4517 The answer to a problem doesn't begin with pointing out all the problems because nothing gets done. My suggestion that children should be taught doesn't remove responsibility from each and everyone of us.
It always kind of surprises me that teenagers do this stuff. When I was in high school (I’m a college JR right now) when my friends and would go out would always clean up wherever we went, we would always judge people for littering. We would even clean up everything at our table if we went out to eat ti make it easier for the waitress.
I think it depends on the city and area they're from...not saying all wealthy kids are spoiled, entitled brats, but it is usually those kids who think they're entitled to do whatever they want because they're 'rich' or in another language their 'daddy/mommy is rich'.
@Zac Braf ... the vast Majority of this kids are of Cuban decent and their parents are likely Republicans and have been using my hometown as their toilet for years.
I just arrived around 6 and witnessed this horrendous mess and on top of that a random drunk minor picked a fight with a grown adult that was simply walking by. I blame the parents for allowing this disgusting behavior.
The children of Florida, or specifically near Miami, literally took no accountability & were not disciplined whatsoever. Whether it’s self disciplined or parental-discipline. Disrespectful & immature af.
That’s disgusting. How could you treat your own community like that? I am a 2014 high school graduate and I never acted like this. Hell, I don’t act anything like how people near my age group act.
@Casey F lol, saying that and thinking 2014 was so recent and that current high school students will think you’re young. That was 8 years ago and to high schoolers, 8 years is a lot of time….you’ve could’ve done 2 more high school experiences in that time.
@@MegaBev nah it's the boomers and millenials. Just kidding not every person from gen z is like this. I'm a fellow gen z and I clean after myself. Whenever we played soccer many people left behind their trash and I usually stayed to clean it up
My Grandfather detested littering and he passed that on to me. No matter what it was he took it and properly disposed of it. The lack of respect many individuals display in their treatment of this precious earth God entrusted us with is astounding.
Something needs to be done at the local schools and parents needs to finally handle their bad kids. Stop giving these kids excuses cause their abusing the privileges that weren't given to actually generations that needed them. They have no respect for others (or elders) and have the gull to pick fights with random adults cause "they have rights". It's time for them to take accountability.
So disgusting. We have a generation of self centered, self entitled spoiled teenagers, who will be horrible employees in the future. They never accept responsibility for anything.
Thank to every parent that didn’t teach there kids accountability at young ages! Most of these kids parents were too busy working. Teachers, coaches, nanny’s and siblings raised them while the parents gave them better lives then they had...
These kids still don’t know how lucky they are to grow up in such a beautiful place and to be able to skip school by going down to the local beach. I grew up skipping school and going to Daytona Beach, but Idk if it’s because I actually lived/grew up in a rural, farming town down the road, or because I graduated almost 15 years ago (different generation) but, the people i went to high school with were never this disrespectful. Also, we’re allowed to drive our vehicles on Daytona’s Beach... I always threw my trash back in my truck bed and cleaned it out once I got home. But, Daytona’s Beaches never look this trashy.. or maybe it’s because I’m, usually, trashed when I’m there and I just don’t notice it. Lol. This is sad.
Yes, mandatory community service and fines! If they are sure those were high school students skipping school, they should be easy to track. Work with the school truancy officers and track them down or random ID checks at the beach...?
I can remember my mom signing me and my siblings up for community clean ups. I hated it, it also taught me not to throw trash on the ground. They need an adopt a beach program at schools to help keep them clean. My kids' school does it with roads and highways in our city.
@@mia1shooter They are NOT Anglos! Actually, they are mostly Cuban-Americans. Cubans come in all colors. Hispanic is NOT a race, it is an ETHNICITY! White Miami Cubans are mostly of pure Spanish origin. You, who is supposedly from MIA, should know how to distinguish whose who. The guy who was asked where the garbage cans were, was definitely "mestizo" (mixed race). Your racial detection skills are definitely not working.
We had a major issue with this for a few years during spring break. We were walking the beach passing out beads and coupons for our company. When we were getting ready to leave we saw 3 city workers cleaning the entire beach, so we stayed and helped (a total of 7). The newspaper found out what happened and took a picture of us cleaning the beach. The next day and every year since, the cops walk the beach and on horseback and make everyone pick up any trash that's within 10 feet of their set-ups, even if it isn't theirs. The paper took the picture from that first day, and compared it side by side with the next day and the first day of the next year. Needless to say, it hasn't been left trashed since.
I’m from miami and graduated in 2005! Senior skip day was always lit at the beach but we’ve always took our trash with us! This is a new kind of generation 🤦🏾♀️
These young adults were fed fast food and raised by game consoles, cell phones and Disney movies. They needed real, caring full-time parent(s)! Do not have children if the most important 24/7 full time job of your life is not for you- please!
Age has nothing to do with this, there are plenty of responsible young people - those responsible young people DIDN'T skip school and were in class while these guys trashed the beach I see people of all ages littering, I have senior citizens throwing cigarette butts in my yard all the time for instance
They are specifically speaking off high school ditch day no other days makes trash into the news,the youth are uneducated you can tell when they cry oppression does this cry oppression no spoiled and entitled do this crap
That is the reality that we are facing in Miami. It is so sad. "What is the city going to do about this?" That is not the question, the question should be what are PARENTS going to do about their kids?
This literally happens every year where I live. I live on an island on the southeast coast of Georgia. It's about 30 minutes from flordia so every year during the week of the Georgia-Florida football game thousands of college kids and adult alumni flock to the beaches and proceed to get drunk and trash the place. Due to the economic boom it provides local business the local government turns a blind eye and often pays people to clean up after the football fans. They get the beaches clean but how much ends up being washed out to sea and ends up killing an untold number of marine animals? Just clean up after yourself...it's not hard.
Never leave it to a teen to clean up their own messes without being made to. Arrest them and sentence them to clean with supervision. Give them a rake and a supervisor and charge them or it will never stop.
I was raised to always leave a place better than I found it and hopefully I have instilled that into my three children. That method will never do you wrong.
The city should go to the school district and find out who wasn’t in class that day. And those students should be given detention in the form of picking up trash. Community service.
@@RogueAtom_1 Thank you! Graduation is a privilege... when I was a senior, some of my classmates got caught smoking right before graduation, and their diplomas were held until they spent Saturday school cleaning the campus. Actions have consequences.
Yep, this is what happens when parents don't beat manners and respect into their kids. They grow up stupid and undisciplined, thinking their actions have no consequences.
This is parenting age of no consequence. All parents from which ever school did it should pay and no Senior prom for disgracing their school and the community. Tough love never hurt and these teens are out of control.
When they came back, the police should have been called for the crime that they committed. Littering is a crime. I wonder if destruction of property could be added as a charge.
@Zac Braf 🙄Selfish, inconsiderate, disrespectful, lack of morals and values having humans are to blame. This has nothing to do with politics.🤔 There are crappie people who do crappie things. You'll find them in every political affiliation and there are even some who don't identify with any political organizations. 😲
I’m sorry, but this almost looks like nothing to me. That 40 bags of trash they showed was less than ONE city corner in Chicago after the “Pride” parade. I say it like that because I saw nothing that day (the day it was ending for the weekend) that described pride. There were people hanging out of taxis puking in front of other people walking, NEEDLES on the ground for people to step on, and trash piled so high at every street corner during cleanup that it was taller than me. I have never seen people trash anything worse than what I saw in Chicago by people attending that “celebration”. 🙄 That was years ago and I haven’t seen anything near as bad since then, as far as being trashed. I’m not saying this isn’t sad. But there are things that happen on a regular basis that are worse that no one does anything about. Also, the first person to mention that they have people who are paid to clean up after the parade… YOU didn’t almost have a dirty needle in your foot. I did. It takes TIME to clean up the MASSIVE disaster they make and SOME people have to deal with it afterwards. Not everyone leaves the city when the parade is done.
"It is increasingly common to see parents relinquishing authority to young children. Not long ago, kids knew who the boss was and it wasn't them" from the book "The Narcissism Epidemic"
The kids these days are definitely cut from a different cloth… entitled, spoiled, ungrateful, disrespectful and many more to name!!! Crying damn shame 🙁
@@has4831 people has been disrespectful since the beginning of time . And just because someone was raised right, that doesn't mean they'll do right . This common knowledge, common sense, & facts . Y'all act like everyone who was raised right said & did nothing wrong . Y'all a mess 😃😃😃
@@cookiecuteasapuppy1008 yes some people were different back in the older days, but many children were the same in the older days . Everyone wasn't the same . Nothing is different . What don't ya'll understand ? Everything that's happening now, happened back then 😃😃😃
People are acting shocked that these kids were able to get away with all this, yet they literally say “the police were called but did not respond”. Tells you all you need to know right there
"If you want the beaches available, you better learn to be responsible." Schools could bring kids back. As group community project. She would be great as a speaker first. Responsibility taught by schools since parents are not doing this often. Or Pro-Active prevention required. Teens...particularly in groups...can be so stupid without enough guidance. Need Cameras, IDs. Helps prevent drinking, drugs. Provide the dumpsters and cans, have charges to get on beach and say it is for clean-up. Have signs up warning don't leave anything behind. Leave it better. Or a 20 dollar fee returned if you clean up a bags worth. Those bags that were torn was probably done by the truly rotten people. Nothing new really. Honestly, I wish it was not cleaned up. The kids would not like coming back to the dirty beach. Kind of like when parents do not make kids clean their messes up. Never learn.
You’re right, the school should not give them any notice, tell the seniors to load up for a senior field trip and take them to the beach, pass out trash bags and tell them if they don’t clean their mess up, there will be no graduation. Somebody has to teach them that kind of behavior is unacceptable since their parents haven’t. That is wrong in so many ways.
@@erinnorwood6124 Yes. One or two days would have been okay, I think. Maybe someone watching over it. But absolutely. I think there may even be a machine that cleans it, actually but that is really not the point here. Annoying and disappointing. Very fixable though. Sounds like this was group influence with the "ehh, nobody else is cleaning up" mentality. Maybe not even a thought, busy having fun, maybe drinking, drugs. They were just not guided enough, I think. Most kids are not that uncaring. Just didn't think if it...the "duh, huh?? What are you talking about? Oh yeah, I guess we should clean up after ourselves" types. 🤦♀️ The more responsible ones were in school or home studying probably. 😉
@@christins.1481 agreed.... thankfully there are some really good kids out there. But the number of bad is increasing exponentially it seems. I almost feel like I'm less and less proud to be an American. Almost.....
I can't help but to shudder at the thought that these are the people who will be taking care of us in hospitals and nursing homes when we get older, and that they'll be filming our most vulnerable moments and posting it for a laugh on TikTok or whatever social media. Honestly, who's going to stop them and make the policies that tell them not to do it when the people in charge of them will only be a few years older than them and they'll most likely have the same stupid attitudes about what they honestly think is their God-given right to film everything and post it on social media? I put money on it that the supervisor(s) will be their friend/follower and will be laughing right along with them at the videos of the poor old person who they filmed in the hospital or nursing home.
@halfvideo yeah they do. Polluters everywhere. I didn't view this as pollution, although it is. I saw it as disrespectful, entitled, lazy, selfish, negative behavior by a small portion of the future of our country. A small portion of an increasing amount of others behaving the same. You and i, we are not alike.
All those seniors that trashed the beach shouldn’t be allowed to graduate or at least not have a graduation ceremony. They made their schools look bad. Hopefully next years seniors are more respectful.
Something basic Missing in Florida Education Systems. They simply should identify the students and schools and make them all clean up the beaches for one year
It should be easy with smartphone technology. Wherever you travel with your phone, the signal bounces off any nearby towers, plus, it remains in contact with navigational satellites.
When I was in grade school our Education System in my grade school was Influenced by the consciousness of the 60s plus our community mindset. We did class projects of cleaning up and picking up things in our neighborhood. We talked a lot about pollution and Protecting our environment. We even planted a tree and before I moved to another country I went to visit the school and saw that tree some 30 years later now 50 years blooming with the joy of Children. When I talk to my classmates each one of us has a Social and environment Protection consciousness. If it's not done at home...educate at the school. That's what its for. Something useful for taking with you.
That because these entitled children were raised to be like this. They don’t clean up at home. Remember parents your children shows the way you raised them and a reflection of your parenting skills. You may not believe it or want to admit it but it is true. Nothing you can say or do says otherwise. The public school is particularly responsible for this as well. The government has not allowed teachers to hold kids responsible for their actions so as a result their is no respect required. Here we are, always cleaning up their mess.
I was born here and grew up in South Miami in the 70/80 as young teen , we skip school on Fridays and head to the 'South Beach, but we were another kind of Breed from our cars , clothes and nice things we earned as growing up , todays kids don't call this place home , we called it our Home till the end of our Lifes .
It’s so crazy how I booked a hotel right at south beach and was arriving that day but then I changed my mind and decided to get a hotel downtown I’m glad I didn’t have to see this on my bday trip I would of been pissed!
I wish they could find out who all the students are that cut and slap fines on them or have the whole school come out and clean up the beach, sometimes it has nothing to do with the parents kids can be Jerks all on their own and the best thing to do is to hold them accountable before they become older jerks
The school administration should’ve been able to advise of this randomly high number of senior students absent for the day… alert authorities to be on the lookout and monitor them. It’s simple 🤷🏾♀️
I cought a family leaving trash on our local beach so i picked it and followed them, then i said "I think you may have forgotten this" i said it really nice and they got the message. I said i hope you have a nice vacation
And the sad part is, some people do live like that. I had a roommate who lived like a pig, and I can say it's the worst thing ever. Lazy ppl are disgusting!
Hello, you can't blame all the parents, I'm sure that many of them have instructed their kids on what's right and what's wrong but who is to say that they were listened to ? Some of the parents would be horrified to see their child behaving in this manner !
Really sad and gets me pissed off obviously their parents have never taught them general respect and cleaning up these lazy parents these days don't know how to raise their kids right. Like it's the truth that just means the parents are just as bad I bet these kids parents are the type of people u see throwing trash and cigarettes out their window while driving
I was reading many of the comments and you are one of the few mentioning plastic pollution or the environment. To think there are so many kids who live with precious marine life around them and they just don't care it is so disheartening.
This kind of behavior is disgusting. I’m a Millennial & we had things like the very popular, environmental cartoon “Captain Planet”, tv PSA’s & commercials about not littering and were even taught about not polluting in schools. To most people in my age group something like this is appalling (even when we were teens). I’m genuinely asking, is Gen Z just not getting the same message? Are they not teaching them in school anymore about the harm of pollution & littering? If the identities of any of them are known they should all be forced to pick up litter for a set amount of hours. Shameful. 👎🏼
The city should have the local garbage company dump a few loads of garbage at the high school in the parking lot, if the kids want to drive then they have to pick up other peoples trash!
Amazing that our visitors would care so much more than our residents kids to keep our beaches beautiful I thank them from the bottom of my heart for caring ❤️. I live up in Northern Florida now and I truly miss Louie Aguirre ❤️✌️🤘🙌
Moms and dads are more concerned about being their child's best friend. Gotta be the cool parents that are seen on their kids social media apps and blogs.
It sounds like the whole senior class needs to be assigned community service. Teachers and parents need to help enforce this. These kids aren't ready to graduate until they learn what it takes to be a responsible citizen.
