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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
You're giving kids way too much credit if you think "most middle school kids know that alcohol is a no-no."
You haven't spent much time with middle schoolers, have you?
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My point was that anyone who asks someone older than them for alcohol knows it's something they're not allowed to have or buy - a "no-no." If they didn't know it was illegal, they would have just tried to buy it on their own instead of asking.
I don't spend much time with middle schoolers now, but when I was in middle school my friends and I knew enough to stay away from alcohol. The students who wanted alcohol got it, but they also knew that it was illegal for them to do so, so they had to be sneaky about it. I had very little sympathy for the people in my 8th grade class who complained of being hungover the day after bragging about how their "cool college friends" would be getting alcohol for them at an "awesome party."
The attitudes towards and the knowledge about alcohol at that age may also have something to do with where I grew up, though, so there you have it.
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