>What is RHS going to do with the athletes and other individuals who participate in extra curricular activities? Don’t they have power to mete out punishment to our children for offenses committed even while off campus?
Did we forget that the legal age for drinking was 18 when we grew up and is now 21 – to the dismay of many college presidents. Whenever society has tried prohibition, it has made things worse. On college campuses today, binge drinking has become a serious problem. Prohibited from learning how to drink responsibly within their local communities, students go off to college having no such reference. Ask yourself this, would you rather have your child learn about the unpleasant effects of over-drinking while under your supervision, that is, while in high school with their friends and living at home or away at college with kids you don’t know? In which environment is your child safer?
So, why the hypocrisy as adults, we drink? Our children are going to drink. The only question is how do we teach them to do so responsibly and to look out for one another when they do? Might it be best that the police department and the parents deal with the situation as they see fit and leave our ever eager to parent, public school system to the task of teaching?
