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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have two kids at two different Big3 schools.  
This past week (end of year parties and grad parties) each of my kids has been invited to KID ONLY parties
where the parents bought alcohol.  The kids at one party were 15-16.  The other ones were grad parties so the kids were 17-18.
The parents bought the alcohol (not the kids sneaking in). The parents had ice buckets of ice seltzer, etc for age 15+ kids. 
They're not tiny parties either (like just the popular or wild kids or anything like that). 
It's a normal cross section of the classes.

Am I hopelessly out of touch?  My kids say  "it's a private school thing mom.  All the parents do it."
Is this true?
I am not judging (well I guess I am) but I'm still sending my kids to these things so I guess I'm not really judging.

And if you say "this never happens", I'd encourage you to dig deeper.  
My daughter was at a 10th grade girls-only pool party yesterday afternoon and I thought I knew the mom.
I never would have even thought to ask my kid "was there alcohol at this girls-only (no boys were there) afternoon pool party?
I mean, huh?
And yet there was!! She served the kids hard seltzer.

What have you seen?  Appreciate any perspectives. 
Thanks you much.

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Was this the coed darty? My friend's daughter was also at a pool party but it was coed and when she picked up her daughter her daughter was drunk and vomitted on the way home from the party. She was completely shocked as it was a pool party during the day. [/quote]

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