Alcohol and Drugs at Boarding School

AppleNotFar
Thu, 25 Jan 2018 00:42:33 +0000

This I get:

Well, there are plenty of BS kids with the access to plenty o’ cash.

And this:

yes, lots of kids at BS flush with cash and credit

BUT I do NOT get this:

Some seemed to have carte blanche access.

Regardless of how much money a family has, shouldn’t parents maintain some oversight with regard to how their kids spend the money they give them? AppleKid gets what I consider to be a generous allowance from us via a joint checking account, but we watch the bank statement (kiddo uses the debit card to pay for everything), and the kid has yet to use the ATM to withdraw cash. If/when that happens we will probably ask how that money was spent. Sure, the kid could probably figure out some sort of barter/exchange system to pay for vices, but DH and I aren’t going to make it easy for the kid. Plus the kid already knows which military academy we’re calling in the event of a very serious transgression. (Well, I wink, but there IS some truth in that last statement!)

Question: do the kids with money regularly “gift” contraband to the kids without?