School's out!

School's out, officially today!  No more books, no more classes and studies, no more teachers for children - all until the end of the year, at least.  No need to worry about our children's results and behaviour in school for children.  Sounds all good, but is it really?
Sorry, I beg to differ.  Being at home most times this month, it is the beginning of a nightmarish end of the end for me.  How?  You see, the way HDB flats are built these days are revolving around the concept of little estates.  A few block of flats will be built in a oval-shaped manner, or sporadically around some amenities like car parks, badminton courts, playgrounds, multi-purpose halls, etc.  Great idea?  Perhaps not.

When children have their holiday breaks, as experienced over the past few years I have stayed here, they have nowhere to 'hang out'.  The best place would be the playground and badminton court area.  Healthy lifestyle, so what is the problem?  It is when they let their hair down and get so engaged with their games that they create excessive noise, screaming and shouting for hours, on a daily basis on weekdays.  The noise is enclosed within the blocks and is brought upwards.  I stay on the upper floot of my block not too near (at least not next to the amenities) and I still get it quite bad.  I cannot imagine if my block of flats is any closer to the heat of the action.

Along with that, they play football at the multi-purpose hall area.  I am fine with them 'dirtying the walls', but I frown at the noise created and the safety-hazard they  pose when they play on and children / old folks walk close to the hall.  They are sometimes oblivious to the people / things around...  sigh...  Not to mention the vulgarities they spout!  Puts us adults to shame with their wonderful vocabulary, sometimes...

What can we do about it then?  Short of rounding them up and putting them behind bars for 'disrupting public serenity' (don't think there is such a law)?  Can their parents sign them up for some holiday class that will take their time away until parents take them home after work?  (Isn't that akin to childcare / studentcare?  Don't they want to lay of learning and books for this time?)  Or can some organisation come out with some novel idea that engage them?  Somebody?  Anybody?...