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Originally posted by DeltAlum
I recommend reading the post by Hoosier in Risk Management about the USA Today story in the January 25 issue that speaks to student deaths and studies that show that the brain of the average 18 year old has not reached the stage of making good decisions...
http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...threadid=74414
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And that's why it's so great to allow them to enlist in the military!! God Bless America!!
The bolded (by me) sentences from the USA Today article sum up what is the problem, not this "developing brain" nonsense.
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"Parents want the university to be protective," says Ann Franke, president of Wise Results, a Washington-based education law and risk management firm. But because
some students arrive on campus without the skills to deal with new risks, and because they have privacy and other adult rights, "no college can guarantee 100% safety for students," she says.
Tucker Brown, 21, a junior at the University of Georgia in Athens and vice president of the student government association, says the sudden freedom college brings has an effect. "I think naturally you come to college, you don't have your parents there anymore, you know you can go crazy," he said during a USA TODAY roundtable discussion in December on college drinking. "Not that you've been waiting to go crazy, but now it is an option,
especially for those people who were on a tight leash."
**snip**
Parents have to get a clue and realize the college is not going to shepherd and coddle their little darlings and call them when they are late for class and wipe their noses and tuck them in at night. Teach your kids about alcohol and let them make some mistakes under your roof before you send them out into the world.