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Originally Posted by amanda6035
Do you honestly think that MADD presentations about drunk drivers...photos, videos, parents coming into tell the story of their dead son or daughter, etc etc, are going to have any impact on these kids? I dont. Kids don't pay attention, and theyt sure as heck don't care. I remember going to those assemblies in high school, thinking "blah blah blah, don't drink and drive, yeah, I know...god this is boring...why am I here? I dont drink anyway, so this crap doesnt apply to me...." and I guarantee you, I wasn't the only one who felt that way.
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Before I started hanging out with construction workers all day, I counseled college students and high schoolers, so I KNOW that this stuff has an impact on some kids, but not all of them. Most people, if they're going to drink or drive,
nothing will stop them from doing so. But, there's that 20% or so who can be discouraged from something like this. That's the 20% we're all trying to reach out to. The administrators out in California went about getting those 20% in the wrong way.
So, yeah...there are those kids who think like you did, but there are also smarter and more empathetic kids out there as well.
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