well, you play Chingy, you pay for it.

I'm sure that's quite low scale in comparison to what kids these days are doing at dances.

13 year old girls are almost seasoned vets in the sack by the time they hit high school for the first time. Sickening.

Wow. One more reason not to go to all those lame dances.

2004-02-15 02:22:10 AM Waffen-SS

13 year old girls are almost seasoned vets in the sack by the time they hit high school for the first time.

No they're not. Hardly any skills if you ask me. Oh wait... nevermind.

All in all, i dont understand why this is particularly intersting.
Facts:
1) Highschool kids "pre-party" (duh)
2) School administrators attempt to stop this by conducting breathalyzer tests (makes sense)

I dont see the problem. Its not like theyre giving the kids full body-cavity searches. Why is the ACLU worked up about this? Do these tests infringe upon 16 year-olds' right to dance while intoxicated?

Almost nobody dances sober, unless he who is insane - Cicero

The funny thing is, I would have been up in arms about this a year ago.

Now I'm 21, fark the kids.

In 6th grade I threw up in the school cafeteria and the principal cleaned it up with a bunch of napkins under his shoe.

/semi-on topic.

at my high school's afterprom they screwed up the list (had to buy tickets ahead of time.) They had cops around to give breath tests which they weren't doing unless it was obvious. I was sober and hadn't gone to prom (ok I'm a fark reader, duh, no date.)

So they say I can't go in cause I am not on the list and start acting like jackasses. I say fine, I'm gonna go drink a 12 pack and go cruise I-495 (dc beltway.) I got in after that real quick. Then the woman who was copping an attitude apologized to me at the end of the night. It was great. The cop even kinda grabbed her gun when I said it. I really didn't quite understand that but Montgomery County cops are dipshiats so...

/just wanted to share

Ain`Soph

you showed him who's boss!

And just how did these school administrators act when they were teenagers? I say hypocrits.

This one kid threw up all over this other kid's shirt in class this one day

It was weird because the kid he threw up on started crying, lmao.

mahuba -

That story rocks.

"Arch! Tis a mighty puddle of puke!"

Mahuba -

You go to QO? Great story, by the by

/Montgomery County high school veteran

Wow, the headline was the only amusing part of the whole article.

"Hey! Glad you all are there... Have FUN!!! Oh.. wait a sec, blow in here please. Yeah... 15 seconds, keep blowing... go go.. blow harder.. keep blowing... harder.... blow harder.. keep blowing...ok. Thank you. You may now enjoy your prom!"

Question - Who is going to administer these tests? Off-duty cops?

Wow, that sucks. Then my classmates wouldn't have been allowed to graduate while drunk!

/had stupid classmates

At our high school you didn't see a whole lot of drunk kids at the dances but I did dj a prom last year at a hick school in the middle of bumblefark nowhere and it seemed like all the kids were loaded. The parents that were there didn't even care. They knew that their kids weren't going anywhere for a couple of hours and that if anybody really needed it, they could drive them home.
Those rednecks is cool yo.

I cant believe I threw up in front of Dean Wormer.



Face it, Kent. You threw up on Dean Wormer.

So proud of myself! First accepted link!

I run a DJ business and do a prom or two every year. They breathalyze the kids. Which isn't a bad idea, would you let your daughter get in a car with some guy that has been drinking?

Boom! Tough actin' Tinactin!

Okay, so you and your pals blow a few doobies, maybe drop some 'shrooms, go to the dance, blow "0" on the breathylizer, bail when you start peaking, then go to the apres party and get totally 'faced...then you all drive home.

Yup, this is really cutting down on teen drinking.

What fools.

That blows

We had our winter formal at a hotel, and we got drunk in a hotel room after we left the party early. Well after the cops "heard" about hotel room parties going on they got extra keys from the front office and busted in on us. Apparently being in your private hotel room is still considered part of the school function, so naturally you get 3 days suspension. High school!

threepi

yeah I went to QO. class of '97. Was neutral about the education, some good some bad but the ineptitude of the administration was impressive.

Some girl who was really smart got caught with a cell phone by the security and got suspended because it was back when drug dealers were the only ones with a cell. She just didn't want to wait for an hour while everyone used the public phone. I mean on one hand its good everyone gets treated equal but damn, she wasn't a friggin drug dealer, its like the kids who get nailed for giving a friend an asprin.

She was on the ivy league route, no clue how it ended up.

when did you graduate?

I think that brethalizers are a good idea, but the ones that they use during high school dances are horrible. All the ones that I've seen assume that you're guilty before you even take it. That is, the light is RED before you take it. Although it doesn't matter as far as the information is concerned, it's harder psychologically on the people to see a red light right as they get there. It really pissed me off. It should be no light or just a measurement of bac.

lame. period.

Kid blows positive. He's not allowed in. So he gets back in his car and drives away. Kills someone. Was/is the school liable?

I went to High School at Dighton-Rehoboth, and this breathalyzer issue began my senior year... 7 or 8 years ago.

The senior prom that year made national news due to this "radical" new policy...our prom was on MTV, (remember Channel ONE?), all the major news networks, etc...

the school officials are a lot of imbeciles, taking drastic measurements for a situation that was practically non-existent in the first place. i went to proms, dances, and various other school events prior to my senior prom, for three years, and i can at least speak for the majority of my class by saying that if we planned to drink it was at a party, or some other NON-school sanctioned event. I can't say that in any year prior, did i see a single individual under the influence.

these clowns think they're saving the world.

i always love to think we'll outgrow thinking of our schools' administration are a clusterfark of numbskulls. it seems the older i get the more i realize our adolescent, naive ideals of adults-as-the-enemy are not QUITE right, but the idiocy is more present than our naive minds ever thought.

and i, for one, can certainly speak first-hand about Dighton-Rehoboth. A celebration of mediocrity, and complete acceptance of stupidity. Glad I'm out of there.

"Wearing a black dress and gray heart-shaped sunglasses that rested on the bridge of her nose, Laura Pires walked confidently into a small room at the Holiday Inn and blew hard..."
Now, if you read a story that started with that sentence, what would you think of?

Montgomery County in the "hay-ouse"

301 "reprazent"

WJ, beeyotch!

Puking on the principal is probably better than puking on a bouncer, as a friend of mine did at the first bar on a pub crawl in college...

"You need to look closely at the damage underage drinking is doing; it's the leading contributor to the leading causes of deaths for Americans up to the age of 35"

What is the drinking age now? 36? The fact that alcohol is a leading contributor all the way to 35 shows just how out of proportion our country's reaction is to under 21 drinking.

said Barbara Harrington, state executive director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "And your civil rights are gone when you're dead."

Why do people always say this ass if it were a justification to trample someone's rights? This could be used to justify EVERYTHING.

If my civil rights are gone when I'm dead, then you can wait until then to violate them and search me without cause. Until then, however; they are fully intact and not be trampled or bypassed without reasonable suspicion.

won't someone please think about the children? I think that this is more about indoctrination into society, where they need to get used to unconstitutional (yes, the 4th amendment even includes schoolkids) searches. Welcome to America! BTW, this proves that it ain't just Bush and Ashcroft stealin rights.

I graduated high school in the 70's... I think.
I agree that the HS administrators are probably being hypocrites and forgetting what it was like to be young. Do I support underage anything? No. Too scary. Too many things going on at once in the brain at that age. No need to scramble your eggs while the bacon's frying.

I went to wellesley high school for two years (great school btw; didn't want to move). Some kids are real jerks though--go ahead, bring a bottle of gin to a dance, so they can cancel the next one. Real smooth, Ex-lax.

Throwin' up ont he principal? That's wicked good.

I go to a high school in Ontario and at the formal/prom, we have around 5 officers frisking you as you go in for weapons/drugs/alcohol (not a bad school I go to...just a few dicks who ruin stuff). If you're caught with any, you get a nice cell for the night to think it over (or if they're lenient, they'll take you home and embarrass you in front of your parents).

...who suggested that students who drink probably just avoid events where there is testing

Which I thought was the point. They don't want to end underage drinking, just keep the morons out of the dances.

said Barbara Harrington, state executive director of Mothers Against Drunk Driving. "And your civil rights are gone when you're dead."

I am trying my best not to personally threaten this woman.

--15 minutes later--

This is tough. Ok, here goes. No, that was just an aneurysm popping in my brain. I can't sit here and think about this any more today. Ow.

Heh. I didn't go to my high school prom, due to stuff like this. Instead, we just got a couple 40s, and a big bag of weed, and went out to some random beach and got wasted.

But they did have a drug sniffing dog at my high school graduation party. Remember kids were standing in the line outside eating bags of weed.

While lauded by many school administrators and especially by parents as an effective means to minimize liability, some educators and families have criticized the use of breath tests as an invasive search that undermines students' civil rights and automatically criminalizes children.

Jesus farking christ.

Wow, I grew up in Needham. Go Rockets! Shame about the breath tests. I was always trippin' on acid, so I guess it wouldn't have affected me! Oh wait, I guess I didn't go to those dances anyway...

Maybe the kids heard the Yankees were going to sign A-Rod.

at this school, one of the teachers threw up in a girls backpack in the middle of class... [and promptly got fired..]
so, i say we start breathalyzing the teachers before they go to class. in public schools at least..

Thank god they didn't do this when I went to high school.
At the prom (which I was shamed to go to because the "girlfriend" insisted) I stuck around long enough to take pictures.
Every guy there drank to have the courage to get on the dancefloor.

Good to hear my old school's still fighting the good fight.