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I am the OP and in no way did my pot imply that the entire student body was at a party.  There are no parties where the entire student body attends.

I have the Churchill student Twitter feed bookmarked just to stay informed.  The point was that they had just finished Every Fifteen Minutes and on the very next day someone had a party where many students were drunk.  [b]The point was that none of these programs are worth a damn [/b]since kids shrug off the message and go out and get drunk the very same day.  [/quote]

So your point was that Churchill shouldn't have bothered? That we shouldn't even try to stop kids from drinking?

One tweet from one kid at one party isn't a good statistical sample. We don't know anything about the 40-45 kids at this party who weren't throwing up or staggering. We don't know anything about the 600 kids who were not at this party. It's possible the PSA had an impact on the vast majority of kids who were not among the 5 vomiters. Then again, it's possible the PSA had no effect. The point is, this single tweet proves nothing either way.[/quote]

The party did in fact happen.  Its location is known to many people.  The parents were out of town.  The tweet was from the "official Churchill student Twitter feed".  It does not make it more reliable that if it was from Joe Blow but I'll bet it was pretty accurate.

They should just forget these programs.  They make no impact.  Its like DARE.  After twenty years of wasting time in the classroom they found out that kids who take the DARE course are just as likely to use drugs in the future as those who didn't take the course.  Montgomery County finally pulled their DARE officers out of the schools several years ago.[/quote]

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