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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Punish kids for a half developed brain. Great.  [/quote]

My 16 yo goes to college next year.  I can promise you that her brain is developed enough to know that nobody should be attending parties during a pandemic.  Even my 13 yo knows that.

In cases where off-campus behavior has implications for other students and overall life on-campus, IMO the school is absolutely right to threaten consequences.[/quote]

My 10 year old knows that drinking alcohol and then driving back on has implications for the health of other students, and yet college students do it with a fair amount of regularity.

I think that a strategy that involves putting 18 - 22 year olds in a situation where they'll only be safe if they follow the rules really well, and assuming that threats of punishments will ensure rule following is a bad one.  Because we know that developmentally 18 - 22  year olds often don't follow rules.

Another example would be that it's developmentally normal for 2 year olds to run at normal times.  That doesn't mean that I didn't explain to my two year old that they couldn't run in the parking lot, or tell him he'd be punished if he did, but I also would pick him up out of his carseat and put him directly in the shopping cart, or hold his hand tightly, because I knew that at certain developmental stages relying on explanations and threats of punishment is not sufficient.  [/quote]

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