Taking effect September 9th of this year, the Holyoke Mall will be enforcing a policy known as MB18. This policy will require visitors under the age of 18 to be accompanied by parents or guardians on Friday and Saturday nights, from 4 pm until closing.
There will be security officers posted at every door to check id's of persons appearing to be under 18. If they are willing to do this, why not set up an identification system for those under 18. You could apply for one that will allow you to go to the mall once or twice a week. A 3 strike rule can be adopted, that if you are warned 3 times, your id card will be confiscated. It could cost $5.00 for a new id so that the mall can have some benefits. Its said that it is a few causing the problems, but its rising. So if we deal with the few now, it won't have to be spoiled for all.
This policy is also set up so that teenagers can still shop at stores with exterior entrances. Is this fair business opportunity for the stores that do not have outside access. Many of the interior stores are geared toward growing adults and their profits might dwindle.
Does this mean that if my mom brought me to the mall, she has to hold my hand along the way and go into every store with me? I will end up walking to a store my mom has no interest in, and the mall security will get me and tell my mom to come to the other side of the mall. Would your mom or you (as a parent) want to be hassled? If you were our age, would you agree?
Another problem i see with this policy is how its limiting my opportunity to purchase items at the mall. I, like many other highschool students, take part in many activities during the week, such as sports, afterschool activities, jobs of our own, and many of us have substantial amounts of homework. I tend to go to the mall once or twice a week, and its usually on a Friday or Saturday. They are the only days that many of us have time to go.
Mall workers under 18 are exempt from this policy. Does it make sence that if we are old enough to work alongside adults, often much older than us, that we cannot shop or spend our cash as equally as they do?
Mayor Michael J. Sullivan says that he "hopes it will inspire young teens to spend more time with their parents" and take advantage of recreational activities made available by the city. Teenagers, for the most part, are adventurous. They want to get out with their friends. You can't make someone spend more time with their parents if they didn't want to in the first place. As for the activities, although his speech may have been geared towards Holyoke, I do not see many activities put forth by the city. It seems that there are less and less available. My parents, along with many other adults I know, talk of the many things they did as children and always talk of how us "kids" these days have nothing to do. Well, for us, the mall was somewhere to go, and now that option has been taken away.
The mall is somewhere to go shop, and maybe have some chit chat about current events. It keeps many teens occupied so that theyre not sitting at home or causing trouble out on the streets. Like it is said, "idle hands are the devil's tools."
If you agree with any of the points I have made, please sign this. Even if you dissagree with one thing, give your opinion in the comments. Please take this seriously, because I have not written this petition just for fun.

And if you sign this, please no swearing, or any obscene comments.

Thank You.

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