Channel 8 is also reporting that 31 students at Highland Park High School have been suspended due to misbehavior at the recent Ghostland Observatory concert.
Article says students were suspended from extracurricular activities. Don’t know what the distribution was, but several are suspended from football. Conveniently for them, they will serve out their suspension for one game against Terrell, the worst team in their division. Funny how that worked out?
My understanding is that it is extracurriculars. Also, the suspension stems from participation in a certain pre-party, rather than the concert, from what I’ve heard. If so, the news got it wrong.
Yeh, but they are all really nice kids. Yes maam’s, yes sir’s, just great kids.
But really, parents, what exactly did you think would happen when your kid got on a party bus to go to a concert? Given the history of some of the underage drinking at these types of events in the past, maybe it’s time to pull your head out of the sand and, you know, be a parent.
That story on Channel 8 was awful! How did the lady they interviewed know all those teenagers were HP kids? I am certain HPHS is not the only school with an underage drinking problem. If the HP students went on a party bus,as I’ve been told, then the parents rented the bus and probably provided the alcohol! Shame on them. Also, I was told at school today that the number of students involved is not close to 31. So channel 8 needs to get the story straight instead of reporting only bad info about HPHS. The majority of students DO THE RIGHT THING!!!
for pete’s sake, what’s all the fuss about?
this is a generational right of passage at HPHS.
in the late 60s there was the well know FMDC.
Friday Morning Drinking Club.
they even had a newsletter, run on mimeograph machine.
i suspect that something similar has been going on
since well before then. and since then, from 1973
to 1981 18 year olds could drink. and every few
years kids are busted for cranking out false IDs.
the only problem this time?
they got caught.
Lots of private school and other school’s kids there, too. Their school administrations just didn’t investigate … kudos to HPHS for doing the right thing. If the other schools actually looked into it or if any of their kids had self reported, they would have some suspensions for extracurriculars, too. Guess they all decided to overlook.
To add to Peter Griffin’s comments – underage drinking and huge parties getting busted is nothing new
1994/95 – Kaufman Round/Cedar Creek ranch party
1996/97 – first round of warehouse parties
1998/99 – second round of warehouse parties and THE WAREHOUSE Party
Y’all cracking down on your kids and getting all uptight is so hypocritical. If underage drinking is the problem, and not pill-popping like other hs around the country, we truly as parents are being knit picky and need to find something else to get overdramatic about.
What hypocrisy? If you mean that we all did it when we were kids, then cracking down on kids is what my parents did, and therefore what we’re expected to do as a parents.
If by hypocrisy you mean that we as adults drink, well, if you can’t understand that then I can’t help you. I guess it would be hypocritical of me to get mad at my 12 year old for driving my car, because I drive a car too.
If by hypocrisy you mean that some adults get loaded all the time and act like fools, well, you’ve got a point there.
Suspended from what, extracuricular activities? Surely not from school.
Article says students were suspended from extracurricular activities. Don’t know what the distribution was, but several are suspended from football. Conveniently for them, they will serve out their suspension for one game against Terrell, the worst team in their division. Funny how that worked out?
My understanding is that it is extracurriculars. Also, the suspension stems from participation in a certain pre-party, rather than the concert, from what I’ve heard. If so, the news got it wrong.
Yeh, but they are all really nice kids. Yes maam’s, yes sir’s, just great kids.
But really, parents, what exactly did you think would happen when your kid got on a party bus to go to a concert? Given the history of some of the underage drinking at these types of events in the past, maybe it’s time to pull your head out of the sand and, you know, be a parent.
any ramifications for host house?
That story on Channel 8 was awful! How did the lady they interviewed know all those teenagers were HP kids? I am certain HPHS is not the only school with an underage drinking problem. If the HP students went on a party bus,as I’ve been told, then the parents rented the bus and probably provided the alcohol! Shame on them. Also, I was told at school today that the number of students involved is not close to 31. So channel 8 needs to get the story straight instead of reporting only bad info about HPHS. The majority of students DO THE RIGHT THING!!!
for pete’s sake, what’s all the fuss about?
this is a generational right of passage at HPHS.
in the late 60s there was the well know FMDC.
Friday Morning Drinking Club.
they even had a newsletter, run on mimeograph machine.
i suspect that something similar has been going on
since well before then. and since then, from 1973
to 1981 18 year olds could drink. and every few
years kids are busted for cranking out false IDs.
the only problem this time?
they got caught.
Mr. Griffin, If you have a child at HPHS, would you please let the rest of us know?
Lots of private school and other school’s kids there, too. Their school administrations just didn’t investigate … kudos to HPHS for doing the right thing. If the other schools actually looked into it or if any of their kids had self reported, they would have some suspensions for extracurriculars, too. Guess they all decided to overlook.
An HP parent provided the school with a list of kids on the bus.
The DADs club is the the FMDC, and they should be blamed
To add to Peter Griffin’s comments – underage drinking and huge parties getting busted is nothing new
1994/95 – Kaufman Round/Cedar Creek ranch party
1996/97 – first round of warehouse parties
1998/99 – second round of warehouse parties and THE WAREHOUSE Party
Until the parents are held accountable with consequences for their part (providing bus with alcohol) in these kinds of situations nothing will change.
Y’all cracking down on your kids and getting all uptight is so hypocritical. If underage drinking is the problem, and not pill-popping like other hs around the country, we truly as parents are being knit picky and need to find something else to get overdramatic about.
Pill popping is also a problem. How could you not know that?
Rational Dad,
What hypocrisy? If you mean that we all did it when we were kids, then cracking down on kids is what my parents did, and therefore what we’re expected to do as a parents.
If by hypocrisy you mean that we as adults drink, well, if you can’t understand that then I can’t help you. I guess it would be hypocritical of me to get mad at my 12 year old for driving my car, because I drive a car too.
If by hypocrisy you mean that some adults get loaded all the time and act like fools, well, you’ve got a point there.