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Originally Posted by 33girl
Death is not a teachable moment and people who try to make it one are absolutely revolting.
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I'm sorry I and many others revolt you, but I think your statement that death is not a "teachable moment" is either very naive or very short-sighted.
During the past year, one high school in my county lost six students in three wrecks involving drunk driving. You'd better believe that the school, with support and assistance from parents of the students killed, are using these deaths as "teachable moments," and rightly so.
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Originally Posted by Alphagamuga
I don't mean to be thick, but isn't her dying of a combination of cocaine and alcohol proof that she used them.
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Oh, of course it is. I was responding more to the statement that "
If someone's showing up to events already wasted, and indeed goes on to die from the intoxicated condition
which existed during the time she was at the event, it should be fair to say that the chapter was on notice that she was using." (Emphasis mine.)
It's clear that she used alcohol and cocaine together. It might be inferred that she had done so before or that she did so in a way (such as by being high throughout the formal) that should have put others on notice of what she was doing, but the information we seem to have doesn't really say one way or the other. It's possible the real drinking/cocaine using didn't start until later in the evening/earlier in the morning. I can guess, but that's all it is -- a guess. I don't know one way or the other.
Either way, there are certainly lessons here. I'm simply cautioning against making assumptions without adequate facts to support those assumptions, that's all.
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