Teenagers in Columbia (Commerce: theater, high schools, camps)

[gimme it]

Do you think the teens in Columbia feel there is enough to keep them busy and out of trouble? Besides HS sports and activities, does the town have other options? Thx

[kareybear]

What options are you talking about? Please give example. It may be a small city but it got a lot of stuff to do. What are specifically looking for?

[lifelongMOgal]

It is the responsibility of parents to schedule their teens' lives and give them the supervision required so that their teens do not have time or opportunity to get into trouble.

There is plenty to do in Columbia, as in most cities. Will parents guide their teens to the approriate activites and enfoce rules, that should be the real question. Just my $0.02

[gimme it]

Originally Posted by kareybear

What options are you talking about? Please give example. It may be a small city but it got a lot of stuff to do. What are specifically looking for?

Musical theatre, dance schools, outdoors clubs, volunteer opportunities, library programs, fencing classes, martial arts, horseback riding, etc.

[kareybear]

Originally Posted by gimme it

Musical theatre, dance schools, outdoors clubs, volunteer opportunities, library programs, fencing classes, martial arts, horseback riding, etc.

Uh Huh on everything . Horseback riding you will have to go outside of Columbia area and not sure about fencing classes though..... There is a dog trainer that awesome in town including a dog park too.
http://www.dbrl.org/- (broken link) this is the library
http://www.columbiamochamber.com/com...facilities.php -Chamber of Commerce (List of Community Facilities)
http://academycastle.com/ - dance school
http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/ParksandRec/ - Info park and recreation
http://www.equinenow.com/missouririding.htm -horse back riding
These are just to give you an idea.
Hope that helps.

[cyrano]

Parks and Rec teaches fencing. I took it there. En garde! There's a couple of community theaters that have volunteers doing all sorts of things. Both high schools have tons of activities. And then there's MU, which hosts all manner of things for teenagers from around the state and country, especially in summer, everything from physics to sports camps. Lots of local kids go to those things.

I dare say there's far more for a teenager to do in Columbia than in most towns of comparable size.

[gimme it]

This is the kind of info I was looking for. Much thanks, Missourians.