Wow... this is too far Options

[impala454]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headli...on/5833544.html

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — On a Monday morning last month, highway patrol officers visited 20 classrooms at El Camino High School to announce some horrible news: Several students had been killed in car wrecks over the weekend.

Classmates wept. Some became hysterical.

A few hours and many tears later, though, the pain turned to fury when the teenagers learned that it was all a hoax — a scared-straight exercise designed by school officials to dramatize the consequences of drinking and driving.

I'm all for hauling the twisted car up to the school to show students just how bad it can be, etc, etc, but wow, this is WAY over the top...

[Spectatrix]

Solution: legalize drinking for like... age 12+. If adults don't make it out to be a big deal, kids won't think it's as big a deal and won't go fucking nuts/stupid over it.

My parents let me try alcohol as I was growing up... never a lot, aside from the time they lost track of my plum wine consumption at a Chinese restaurant... but if they were drinking something for a holiday or birthday or w/e, they'd let me try a sip. I don't think I've ever been drunk, though I did get pretty buzzed once at 18 (safe at a friend's house, with only people I knew well), and I never went crazy with alcohol in college or drove drunk or anything like that.