Banned from grad for senior prank

[Cataholic]

I agree, thank you pembroke_corgi and caseysmom. JUST because teenagers are younger then adults doesn't mean they are stupid. I hate how a couple of bad apples ruin the reputation for the rest of us. I am also sick of the constant bashing, it needs to stop.

I thought the OP was about someone unknown to all of us. Right? Wasn't it something in the paper somewhere that someone posted? So, when the comments came in, weren't the comments directed towards this particular teen? How is that teen bashing? Maybe bashing one teen (if, in fact, it was bashing at all), but, not teen bashing.

Like K9soul- bring me upstanding behaviour, or the raunchiest kind, regardless of age, and I applaud/disagree with the conduct. This really isn't about 'age'. It is about maturity, 'world' views, and social responsibility.

Maltese love, I hate to 'wax poetic', but, from my experience, the 'bad apple' spoils the bunch not only in high school, but, in the real world too.

Why do employers enact dress codes? Hours of employment? Policies of phone use, computer use, lunch hours, vacation, fraternization at the work place? Why do municipalites enact leash laws? Noise ordinances? Zoning codes? Heck, where I live, I can only put my trash out to the curb a set number of hours ahead of the appointed pickup.

Because 'bad apples' spoil the bunch. If this is distasteful commentary from some old bat, so be it. I wouldn't want to have your system shocked when you leave school.

I do love this debate, teens are people, too; but, not up to the point where personal responsibility comes into play.

It is a cruel, cruel world. I didn't make it, but, I do have to live in it. So do you and all the others.

[caseysmom]

I realize the op was about another teen but there seemed to be a lot of broad sweeping generalizations going on.

I have two teens, they are night and day I wouldn't think that either of them could be generalized in one way.