Students at Ontario high school must take breathalyzer before they can dance
Categories: Education
A Catholic high school in southwestern Ontario has declared a new policy for future school dances: no one gets in the door unless they pass a breathalyzer test. Man, if my high school had that policy, no one would have been at the prom except for me, my Mormon date, and half of the marching band.
The decision by administrators at Sacred Heart High School in Walkerton is a reaction to events at the last major school dance, which ended in a drunken melee and resulted in 11 suspensions for fighting and underage drinking.
The school's trustee Tracey Ellis says any students who show up with alcohol in their system will be kicked out of the dance immediately. Cripes, is John Lithgow somehow involved with this disaster? Something tells me the students at Sacred Heart need a hero, some student with the ninja skills necessary skills to sneak past security with a couple bottles of vodka to poor into the punch. Someone, say, who resembles a young Kevin Bacon. Maybe his prom date could be, "pregnant," but really have a "belly" full of Labatt's Blue. Either way, good luck students of Sacred Heart, it won't be easy but I know you will find a way.
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Rachel May 11-30-2006 @ 5:55PM
I can't believe you would write an article that implies - almost says outright - that underage drinking is OK. You make it sound like it's a rite of passage or something. You make it sound really, really cool.
Did you ever graduate?? Ever grow the heck up??? Hello??? Underage drinking is NOT cool. There are REASONS why teenagers shouldn't drink -- lack of maturity to make plans for rides, their brains are still developing, their bodies are changing, immortality complexes, you name it.
What's wrong with you that you STILL have this attitude? Will you have this attitude if your children are caught drinking at 15? "No problem, kid, I understand -- I was there once -- It's cool that you got caught/expelled/fined/jailed/killed someone."
Holy cow.
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