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At our school, the home football games are the place to be on a Friday night. Normally it is kicked off with tailgating at 4:30, and by the time the game starts at 7:30, the student section is sufficiantly drunk. Our school has always done what countless other high schools around the country do by turning the other cheek to this. They're not causing any harm beyond cheering loudly. The games would be silent as a tomb without our wonderful student section. There were always a few disruptive individuals, but they were dealt with as they deserved to be.

Set the scene to last Friday night at the game. Tailgating is suspiciously free of police and teachers looking over us...then the walk down to the game begins. Our team is getting killed, yet the student section is still yelling and having fun. Suddenly the principal along with 6 or 7 cops show up, and they begin to breathalize every suspicious looking person. I had not drank that night, and had no worries, so I stayed behind after 9/10ths of the students had either gotten taken away in cop cars or ran away. After they left, the game and school spirit left with them.

Now the school is acting like they're big and bad because they busted a bunch of harmful kids, people who are now facing expulsion. Then you look at the people they busted...4.1QPA, NHS, Student Council, etc. So the school sends an entire township's police force to possibly ruin the lives of a few kids who were doing nothing more than having some fun, and cheering on their school's team. Meanwhile, we have heroin addicts and potheads running around the school. And the starting quarterback of the team who's failed drug tests 3 times, yet is miraculously still playing.

Anything wrong with this picture?
 
That's the problem with "preps". They think, for whatever reason, they can get away with it. They really must be smart if think they can get away with under age drinking out in the public. I do not condone what the "stoners" do, which is far worse. But, I say those "preps" got what they deserved.
 
Even so, they were never really causing any harm to anybody at the game. They were simply having fun and cheering for their team.
 
my school isnt all that good but this year they have done so much better than previous years. you see our school hasnt beaten a certain team in 26 years you see we are one of the worst high school football teams in missouri. i go to ritenour high school. but this year our record is 3-4 so we arent doing all that bad this year so we can hopefully come back with a state championship this year so there have you ever heard of a high school football team that does this bad?
 
Sublime,
At the risk of sounding like a parent: Unless you have a student section full of 21 year old high school freshmen, the school was well within it's rights to have the students arrested for D & D.
As for the other substance abuse, That crap should/needs to be nipped in the bud. Putting ****e into your body because you can is every bit as stupid as getting a blow job from a crocidile!
I know that people are gonna use drugs, and are gonna drink. Just because its considered to be a "class" thing (preppies = alcohol abuse/trailer trash = pot use/urban = crack use) does not mean it's right or prudent to do so.
After the game, with no intervention, these same happy (but severely intoxicated) people wiill be leaving the football field in automobiles. It has be exhaustively proven that if the "nut" behind the wheel is too "tight" or too "loose" there is a very increased chance of an MVA.
Where I work MVA (Motor Vehicle Accident) means injury, it means tears, it can even mean death.

I don't want you to miss out on the fun of being a teen-ager, by any means.
I do want you to miss out on the "joys" of going to funerals of friends for as long as possible.
I do want you to miss out on the "joys" of sleeping one off in the local jail.
I do want you to miss having to look your best buddy in the eye after he's been crippled because he chose to ride with a drunk driver.
I do want you to miss looking one of your friend's parents in the eye after they've buried their child. Especially, if you might have been in the same wreck. They're wondering why it was their kid that died and why you walked away. They wouldn't say that to you. But it's what they're thinking every time they see you smile.
Save the the drinking and drugging till it's legal. Then do it at home so you don't have to go anywhere in a car.

Thus endeth the rant.
 
Yeah, I see where you're coming from. For those stupid enough to drive home intoxicated, I agree that they deserve the upmost punishment, but the majority tend to hitch a ride with a DD.
 
Public intoxication and underage drinking - sounds like two really minor misdemeanors. Facing expulsion? Talk about over-reacting...
 
I have only gotten drunk by myself on my own time (mainly because id be a pretty big a-hole to people drunk, and i am only 18. I congradulate them for taking action and teaching those kids a lesson...but what lesson are we teaching them? I think explusion might be too harsh, but if thats what they get, the school is well within their rights to follow through with it. How many people are killed by those kind of kids every day that think they drink? How many people are killed by people who used to be those kids...and still think its ok to drink and drive?
 
I understand the situation perfectly well.

I'm a perfect example of how star players get special treatment.

As an example: I got busted smokin weed (he thought I had a cigarette) behind the high school by the Asst. Principle himself,... told me to walk into town if I was gonna do it.....

.... Skipped countless classes all senior year,.. never got a detention for any of them.

Yet,.. when I looked around,.. everyone else was getting called to the office for every unexcused absence, and people were getting handed 5 day suspensions for smoking.

Anyone who says there arent politics in High School sports arent playing for a school who wins,... cause thats all that matters in high school,. winning in athletics.
 
Not our local highschool. We are on our way to another championship.

I'm just following up on the post that is 2 above this one.
:)
 
I know plenty of my friends who are only sophs go and get drunk, many of them tri-athletes. I choose not to participate. Although I'm all for school spirit, drunk people probably shouldn't be the only source.
 
Originally posted by M5Power
Public intoxication and underage drinking - sounds like two really minor misdemeanors. Facing expulsion? Talk about over-reacting...
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I actually think that a good beer drunk followed by sleep with little hydration would be a good punishment.
That is the recipe for a "from Hell" hangover.
And the worst hangover I ever had was the day after my 20th birthday. I haven't been drunk since.
 

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