The ritual has been the same for years. Someones parents have to go away for a night or the weekend and they trust their child home alone. Then once the parents are long gone the party begins. Kids pile in with drugs, alcohol, and whatever else they can think of to have a good time. Some parties are huge successes while other get busted but hey it happens. But unless that party happens to be on school grounds (why someone would actually do that is beyond me)should have absolutely no effect on their school life.
The 24/7 policy states any student arrested for drug or alcohol use, whether on school grounds or not, faces suspension from sports and other extracurricular activities. To me that sounds way to extreme. Kids like to have fun and be rebellious sometimes to escape the pressure of school or anything else going on in their life. They shouldn't be punished academically for choices they made outside of school. As for getting in trouble with cops and juvenile records and all that fun stuff, that's free game because that follows you where ever you go.
Fear of detention probably won't stop students for partying on the weekends so why even bother with it? It seems like it does more harm then good.
