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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There is a lot of drinking at independent schools. The kids are under a lot of pressure and they want a break from it. The thing that really surprises me is how many parents turn a blind eye to it. Or maybe they really don't know that there is kid gets drunk every weekend. But a lot of them do. I won't guess at percentages because I really have no idea but we hear a lot about it during meals in our house. It's not the case of one or two kids repeatedly getting in trouble. It's a new story and a new kid almost every week. [/quote]

I am in my 40s and there were lots of drunk highschoolers in the 80s (and some stoners too but not much hard drugs).  But the kids I knew in highschool who got drunk ended up not being as wild in college.  Highschoolers have a level of protection (living with parents or boarding school teachers) that college age kids dont have.  Yes, some kids experiment a lot in boarding school or highschool but I think that is better than experimenting in college.  More of those kids got either very badly taken advcantage of or in serious trouble (DUIs, hit and runs, date rape, etc...).[/quote]

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