Reply #42: from my personal experience [View All]

from working at a movie threater for a couple years AS a teenager ...

it seemed to me the worst kids were usually between 11 and 13/14. as they were being left to go to the movies on their own by parents for the first times.

i had to have parents called all the time for kids who just refused to behave and let people enjoy a movie.

adults DONT like coming to the movie when there is a large amount of kids hanging out... thats just a fact, and was told that very thing by several customers.

i literally had to break up fist fights and call the cops on people... something at the time i thought id never be doing against my fellow under 18'ers.

its sad but true that unsupervised CHILDREN , when put into a situation that they are surrounded by peers, are going to do stupid things!

while limiting when someone can or can not be some where is definitely a harsh response, it is possible that other steps had been tried before and failed...

kids are going to be kids tho. its to bad that a few have to ruin it for the rest of them.

but hey, ultimately that place can do whatever it wants because its private ... its hard to make a case that a CHILD is being discriminated against by age when infact thats the point. hence why theres an age in which you get the label 'adult'.