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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am truly interested in what kind of high school experience the call the police posters had. We drank all the time, went to top DC schools, went to great colleges, and were generally fine. We were drinking beer and, back then, smoking cigarettes. We weren't doing anything too crazy.

Did these posters not go to parties, and assume parties involved cocaine and sex trafficking or something? This level of outrage is such an extreme take on normal teen behavior. You have to teach your kid how to exist in the world. It's not your job to shut down teenage activity as a general matter. [/quote]

I had a fabulous high school experience!  I'm in my 50s, grew up in the midwest where everyone was driving by the age of 15 (didn't need a license to drive a farm vehicle and everyone had a farm truck).  I went to a lot of parties with alcohol, weed and cigarettes.  I never got into any accidents or trouble.  Yet, I would still call the police if I were OP because I recognize just how very lucky I was.  Several of my high school friends and college roommates weren't so lucky.  Several were involved in accidents, One friend, our senior year, was killed when he hit a bridge guard rail right in front of our farm.  One of my college roommates killed a passenger while drinking and driving.

So, yeah, I recognize that just because something has been normalized doesn't mean it's okay.[/quote]

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