Drunk Driving & Teens

Lets talk about this....

http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5005097&page=1

 

Hmmm. Not sure how I feel about that quite yet. The old ways are no longer effective - but was this too far? I dunno. Maybe not, what was that term I learned in psych class? Where kids think they are invincible? What about the scared straight programs where kids visit prisons? I like those.

 

Well, I was really mixed in my feelings when reading the link. My teenage daughter is in the den right now so I started reading it off to her (I get emotional so she sensed it). While reading it she stopped me and told me that a girl at Clayton High had this same scenario as her Senior Project this year. She is unsure if it was approved but my daughter thinks that some kids need something as strong as this. She reminded me of a friend of mine who received a call in the wee hours of the morning recently about his son.

I think it is drastic. My daughter thinks not. If it works on the majority, maybe...still unsure.

Sherry

 

I agree with it....whatever it takes to keep em safe! They may never know how many teens were positivly affected by the real life drama of it all! Teens do not take things seriously and think that nothing will ever happen to them!! If it saves lives then it is not too drastic! The old way they were doing it with the reaper coming into the class room and removing the student was just snickered at and joked about....clearly NOT getting the point across!

 

Works for me.

 

No FREAKING way!

When authority figures LIE, they lose all credibility. Those who are supposed to listen to the authority figures become cynical and stop listening. Of course, we have all been desensitized to a lying authority by having a leader who is a patholoigical liar. Nonetheless, this method of scaring the teens into driving safely is STUPID, STUPID, STUPID. (And it won't work.) If my kids were ever subjected to that, I would be cussing out a Pricipal for allowing it to happen.

S-T-U-P-I-D!!!!!

 

MAjority of the kids today think they are invincible. They did something like this at my daughters school. Im all for it. I can talk till im blue in the face about the dangers of drinking and driving and show the kids all the statistics and photos. But they are words to them that a lot will let go in one ear and out the other. Sometime we have to grab their attention the hard way. I say go for it.

 

I've never heard of anything like this before. That is scarey. I'm on the fence about wether it was right or not. When I was in school I remember they had a smashed up car on display to 'scare' us from drinking and driving.

 

When I was in Driver's Ed at 14, we had to watch actual movies of what happens to drunk drivers and their victims. I am now "way older than that" years old and remember them vividly! Made a huge impression without the personal trauma.

However, I do not have kids so my opinion on this one is moot.

 

I don't agree with lying to them. I think they should be made to spend time at hospitals and rehab centers with survivors of drunk drivers.

 

:iagree: As stated earlier, do we really want them to doubt authorities???


Oh wait that is me! :mrgreen:

 

Unfortunately, usually the drunks are the only survivors.
I'm all for the videos showing real-life aftermath...with the blood and bodies and crying friends.

Have some kid who drove drunk and has paralyzed friends because of it come in and talk about how his/her life is changed because of having to live with what he/she did. Have the injured/paralyzed/brain-damaged kid come in and talk about how his/her life is changed. Have a nurse/doctor come in and talk about how paralyzed people often have to wear diapers and have other people clean up after them or feed them ... teenagers don't think about the daily life changes that occur.

They need some reality, not protection. When you choose the action, you choose the consequence. They need to understand that mommy and daddy can't get them out of every stupid thing they do.

(ok, off the soap-box now)

 

Since when has it become the school systems job to
make such impacting decisions, involving Our children's lives.
Although I agree with the thought process behind these choices,
and I agree that it takes a village.

I find myself more and more astonished at the amount of control,
The System feels they have over Our family's.

I truly hope that every one of these parents were informed of these actions
before they took place, and agreed to have they're children involved.

Maybe if Our school administration, and the parents were more like
partners in educating the youths, we would have more successful children.

What happened to everyone rallying together, supporting one another in
this very difficult task of raising childern. Are we really that far away for the
Andy Griffin days? Is there any hope left?

 

I have volunteered at DS's school since he started....have seen and heard alot of things. Unfortunately there are lots and lots of parents out there that just dont care! They dont spend time with their kids, they dont talk to their kids, they dont try to educate them in any way.....academics or life experiences! Look around when you go to school, you will see the same parents there all the time! I ask our teachers every year.....do you get much participation and they always say NO....we see the same parents all the time and there are others we NEVER lay eyes on! Very sad.....good parents are hard to find! SO, that being said we should really be glad that the school systems take the time to educate these kids in areas such as this.

 

Back in the Andy Griffith days, the schools and communities were surrogate parents and kids knew someone was always watching. Now the U.S. is full of 'you can't tell MY child (whatever)' or 'how dare you punish my angel...'. If parents would DO their jobs more consistantly then maybe the schools wouldn't feel like they had to. With parent's 'keep away from my child' attitude, maybe the schools should quit offering the social services and let life happen to them. Go back to just the educational basics and let the parents pay all those 'interventions' themselves. (remember, though, I'm the one promoting reality education with full-color pictures).

 

I completely agree that the parents should be more involved. Watching a video or someone lecturing me at 16 (when I knew everything haha) didn't drive the point home. I have a friend who was paralized from a drunk driver at 16. Watching the struggle that he went though made more of an impact on me by seeing it first hand.

 

I know having a younger brother hit and almost killed by a drunkdriver when he was 8 has stayed with me always. My brother was in a coma for two weeks, paralyzed on one side of his body, and had a trache for the longest time. He is fine now, except for that scar on his neck but I can honestly say I have never driven drunk.

And whatever happened to the Driver's Ed films of yore?

http://www.veoh.com/videos/v6437932xcEgDKQy

 

Oh, here's another one!

http://www.archive.org/details/WheelsofTragedy

 

Me, me, me! Why must everything be about you today? :lol:

 

I think if I was sitting in a classroom and someone told me on eof my good friends had died, I would not be able to contain myself. And then how am I learning anything school related if I am upset throughout class? And when I found out it was a trick, I'm pretty sure I would flip out and then get suspended. I honestly think that kids are already too emotional. Why would you fool someone that someone else is dead? That is just wrong. I don't care what kind of message it sends.

For you parents out there...

How would you feel if someone called you and told you your child had died while out driving with some friends. But then got a call back telling you it was a false statement, and that they just wanted you to appreciate your kids more?