<p>Also consider this.
The majority of posters have stated things like, "my kid, my kids friends etc. are responsible " (read as don’t drink/use drugs etc) and “I know the parents, we know the kids since nursery school”
The point is someones kids ARE partying like crazy. And Everyone thinks its not their kids - so whose kids are they? My son, the rare times I get info from him tells me who is doing the drugs/drinking. I am shocked, because its all the nice polite kids I have known for years -the honor student, the kid who got into the ivies, the athlete, the kid who won all the awards as well as the alternative program kids. I know the moms well, have since kindergartan but no one TELLS the others who is partying. So parents like all of us are in denial about who is doing the partying. Many are even home when the kids are partying so they are supposedly Chaperoned and supervised. But kids are clever.
Of course I think my son is the responsible one too. Maybe I am being deluded. The only reason why I think he is not guility is that his girlfriend is 2 years younger and has a curfew so he dosn’t party as often as others and they go to parties together. Because she is younger, she gets uncomfortable if the kids get too wild. And because of her, he declined the senior weekend trip to the beach (unsupervised) and worked instead. Still, if he wanted to go, I would let him. I won’t be able to check up on him in college.</p>