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...

[Mommy]

By that same token, though, alcohol was absolutely forbidden in my household growing up. My parents didn't drink even a sip. I never drank a single sip while in high school. When I left for college, I didn't try alcohol until my second semester at Tech. I never drove while drinking. Then, at age 19, I gave up alcohol completely until I was almost 21. I really never drank much until I was 22, and then pretty much gave it up again. I never had a problem with drinking despite my parents absolutely forbidding it. In fact, to this day, my mom thinks I have pretty much never drank. I have made the conscious choice that I will probably never drink again because that's the kind of household I want to raise my children in.

I don't think it has anything to do with how the parents are concerning alcohol. I know plenty of parents that allow their kids to drink supervised, and their kids make awful decisions regarding alcohol. I think it has to do with adult supervision. Know where your teenagers are. Know what they are doing. Know who they are with. My mom was always in my business, but I didn't care. I knew she did it to protect me because she loved me.