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Originally Posted by KSUViolet06
Ok so your friends are all perfect and they would never do that.
I've worked in middle school, and the average kid is not that. Not saying that every middle school kid I've known is a raging party animal, but even the best kids will try drinking if one of their friends is doing it.
What I was really getting at with quoting your statement is that, in the context of what we're discussing here, if I get arrested for buying my students alcohol, I can't respond with "well, they knew it was illegal to ask me."
Whether they know better or not, I'm still the adult. I have to protect them (by not providing it for them) because the law says "these are kids and they aren't capable of making decisions regarding purchasing/consuming an intoxicating substance."
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Agreed on everything. I'd also like to add another small point. Children may know certain things are wrong, or off limits. If children ask an adult for something that they know they shouldn't have, and that adult gives it to them, in a lot of children's minds they think it's then okay to have whatever was off limits. An adult giving a child something can seem like they're getting permission to have it/do it/say it, so in hindsight they really don't know it's a no-no.
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