# A runner-up for the moron-of-the-week honors **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 29, 2006, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023 "2006-01-29T00:22:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![treis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bc79bd/32.png) [@treis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/treis)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023/21 "2006-03-28T03:00:52Z")
> [@Sublight](#): > > Ostracized? How pathetic does a school and its students have to be for not drinking to equal ostracism? > > Sorry, but if they (and their friends) are too immature to handle not being able to drink, they’re too immature to be drinking in the first place. Its not merely refraining from drinking, its avoiding all places in which “alcohol is served, or consumed.” In my experience alcohol is being served or consumed at the large majority of college social events, YMMV. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023/22 "2006-03-28T03:27:28Z")
> [@treis](#): > > YMMV. It certainly did. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 12:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023/23 "2006-03-28T12:35:18Z")
> [@treis](#): > > Its not merely refraining from drinking, its avoiding all places in which “alcohol is served, or consumed.” In my experience alcohol is being served or consumed at the large majority of college social events, YMMV. Even if everything you said is 100% true, so what? Socialization is not the be-all and end all of life, let alone college life. It’s essential to develop internally to the point where you can live pretty much on your own. Humans don’t need other humans around them every day of their lives. If the girls needed to go to parties to the point where not even a court order could restrain them, they obviously have problems that must be addressed. Of course, their actions demonstrate even worse problems than that. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023/24 "2006-03-28T16:46:06Z")
The funny thing is, these little darlings are probably blaming somebody else. ---
**Author:** ![furlibusea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@furlibusea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furlibusea)\ **Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023/25 "2006-03-28T23:41:06Z")
Even when 18 year olds were alowed to drink, schools tried to maintain no drinking policies for school activities. There is no way for schools to provide the level of supervision that allowing any alcohol at all would require. As it is, every spring after prom, some high school has to bury one of its brightest and best to an alcohol related death. The first thing I noticed with this case, was that the most drachonian of the punishments were instituted by the school. The school was the one that insisted that she not be alowed to reblow the test. The school pulled her ability to wear the honors shawl, not the judge. It was the school that said she could not be captain of the soccer team. None of those were the judges decisions. The second thing I notice is that these girls are still minors. As a condition of their probation, the judge ordered that they couldn’t break the law again. Oh horrors! What an evil, evil man!! Give me a break! They broke probation pure and simple. They managed to do it in a manner that defined contempt of court. Then the young lovely tries to pull the ultimate Eddie Haskel by saying she wants to be in the criminal justice system. They earned what they got. Maybe, just maybe, if their parents stop justifying everything their little darlings do, and let them face the conciquences of their actions, They might grow up to be worth the multitude of privilages, brains and talant they were blessed with. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-runner-up-for-the-moron-of-the-week-honors/342023.md?page=1)