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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am mentally struggling with leaving middle schoolers unsupervised for long stretches of time.  Of course they are CAPABLE of being alone . . . but aren't folks worried about the trouble they can get into?  All I know is that I got drunk for the first time at 12 - walking home with a big group from middle school - one of the kids shoplifted a bottle of rum and we passed it around (I only had a teeny amount but that was enough!).  MANY other times walking home from middle school we would shoplift from Safeway.  Lots of kids would stop and smoke pot.  I used to sneak out of the house at night.  This was an upper middle class school/neighborhood.  My parents had NO CLUE and I was a straight A student.

Maybe everyone on here was a good kid and can't imagine/doesn't remember the stuff you got up to?  Maybe kids need to sneak around and do bad stuff as part of a maturing/growing up process?[/quote]

You did stuff while walking home from school when you were in middle school, and so therefore parents now shouldn't let middle-schoolers stay home after school by themselves? I don't get it. I mean, if you were saying that parents shouldn't let middle-schoolers walk home from school because they might get up to stuff like you did in middle school - but that's not what you're saying.

For what it's worth, here are some things I did on my walk home from middle school:

1. Walked home (most days)
2. Walked to the drug store and looked at make-up, then took the city bus home
3. Walked to the mall and looked at tops, then took the city bus home
4. Walked to the public library and checked out books[/quote]

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