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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It amazes the hell out of me that parents actually let their high schoolers go off on their own and party unsupervised for a week. And I am by no means a conservative parent. [/quote]

The students attending beach week are typically graduating seniors who will be "off on their own" and "unsupervised" at university within a few months. At that point in their lives, if they can't handle a few days without supervision and manage their own parties without getting arrested on in a delicate/bad situation, we have bigger problems than just beach week.

Except for two notable occasions, I haven't outright restricted my teens' social lives since they turned 16. We use the period between then and high school graduation as "adulthood with a safety net" for lack of a better term, to give them a chance to practice handling the responsibilities they will face in the adult world while we are still around to step in if things start to crash and burn. They're 17 and more or less covering the cost themselves -- their choices are their own at this point and I just have to trust that they will behave sensibly based on how they have been raised.

Admittedly, I am a lot more comfortable with them attending this thing at age 17 than I would be if they were already 18...[/quote]

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