<p>How do kids end up doin drugs and drinking and having sex at bs? I thought tgat they are always being watched, but apparently not. And what school is that kinda stuff most prevalent in?</p>
<p>… Not that hard, really. The truth about high school is that it’s easy to get. And these brilliant kids at BS even easier because they know how to work things.</p>
<p>Example… Off campus parties on week ends seem to be big. Not that hard to do any of that stuff now is it?</p>
<p>It depends on where you go. Depending on which school, you’d be restricted on how many times you could even come off campus per term/semester. Some are very loose about patrolling, while others might do dorm-checks. And some schools have one-strike policies, while others might not tolerate at all. So it varies widely.</p>
<p>It may be harder or easier. The point is in a school which caters to the creme of the crop and provides an environment in which one can grow micromanagement isn’t really an option.</p>
<p>Why not (10 char)</p>
<p>Everything is cool until one gets caught. Once you’re on their radar screen, you’re never off. Plenty of kids to take your place. No teenagers (or adults) are exempt from doing stupid things, it’s just that some are better than others at being stupid. Some are smart in actually realizing and understanding the consequences beforehand. Unfortunately there are those who just don’t get it until they’re on their way home. My advice, be smart and just don’t do it.</p>
<p>Thats good advice I don’t think people should be doing that stuff in high school and drugs they should never do.</p>
<p>Well, most importantly, if you don’t make mistakes your not gonna learn. It’s like your immune system. If you never get sick your body doesn’t learn to deal with it (the antibodies) and you will eventually die of a widespread infection. Essentially why the mother cannot have been in a bubble (medical) nine months or earlier before birth of a child.</p>
<p>So your saying kids should go ahead and make these mistakes even though their parents tell them not to do it and it could be life threating so they will learn.
Will they learn before or after they die from drugs?</p>
<p>… No, I am not. </p>
<p>istole asked why I stated that micromanaging students at a BS would not work, that was my reply. If I don’t make a mistake and learn to get organized sooner, then it will be later. When my prof is asking me for a term paper or my boss for a presentation.</p>
<p>Don’t jump to conclusions.</p>
<p>Urban flop that post kindof made you my hero…</p>
<p>I’m with ops and urbanflop here. Why do it at boarding school and risk getting thrown out when you’ve worked so hard to get in and your parents are paying a ridiculous amount of money for tuition? </p>
<p>Also, I don’t know about other people’s experiences at bs, but for me I didn’t even have time to think about things like that; I was too busy with academics and extracurriculars (and that’s why I loved bs) and if I had any extra time, I wanted to spend it recharging. I know that drug use definitely happens at any high school, but again - I really think that it’s especially stupid to do it at bs and risk everything.</p>
<p>I’m the kind of kid who took risks and did some stupid thins thorughout BS, but everything I did resulted in something I felt was positive for me. I never really felt the need to smoke or drink, so I didn’t.</p>
<p>I personally think it’s stupid. But some people think the stuff I did was stupid, matter of opinion I guess. If I got caught for anything I wouldn’t be kicked out of school, they would…that was the difference from me and them. But then again, they were rich, they could afford to get kicked out of school (or atleast that’s how they made it seem). I was full FA, I couldn’t ruin that opportunity.</p>
<p>I think that threads like this suck because all of us on CC are squares, and would never even dream of breaking rules. You only hear the people that are like ‘don’t do drugs!!!’</p>
<p>btw I would never do drugs, so dont go thinking that tennisgeek1 is a junkie</p>
<p>You guys aren’t getting my point. I am neither telling anyone to do drugs, nor am I saying that rules governing that should be lax. My point is that BS is enough of a bubble as it is, if the school imposes such a high level of micromanagement the students have no way to grow and find out for themselves.</p>
<p>There’s not always going to be someone who will bail for you. If you don’t learn what you aren’t good at at this stage in your life, you’re not gonna learn till something completely ****ed up happens.</p>
<p>You right tennisgeek1 and ImCrazy I mean all the super rich kids are out doing something else because they can already afford BS. No one is going to come on here and say thats its okay to do drugs because they know it would be stupid.</p>
<p>Just because the super rich kids can afford to be morons doesn’t mean that they will. In my current school one of the smartest kids father owns a Lamborghini, and this is in India (waste, I know). </p>
<p>Things will happen, remember it is high school. Learn to deal with it and not get sucked into it.</p>
<p>to get away with things you have to be Phineas and you have to go to Devon School =)</p>
<p>That’s a good one AmbitiousGirly. :)</p>
<p>PrincipalV–Boarding school is quite different from public school in that it is often “one strike and you’re out”. In my town when a group of football players are caught drinking at a party on the weekend, they might all get arrested and have to sit out two weeks from football. So they miss two games. At boarding school the football players caught drinking might have to sit out the ENTIRE season or be thrown out of school if it is a second offense.</p>
<p>Sure, there is a lesson learned, but the consequences at boarding school can be life-altering, as in spending the rest of your life wondering “Why did I throw away a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity?”</p>
<p>That’s just one example and there are plenty tales to be heard.</p>