What Would YOU Have Advised Your Child To Do?

We have always tried to instill in our children that while having a drink as an adult is not a bad thing (the Bible doesn't say "don't drink"; it says "be not drunken"), to drink as an under-aged student is very wrong. We have always told our kids if they ended up at a party where drinking was going on to remove themselves from the temptation. We've pounded in their head that IF they ever should decide to take a drink, to never, never get in their vehicle to drive but to call us and we would come and get them. We've also drove home the fact that they should never, ever get into a vehicle as a rider with anyone who has had a drink, but to again call us and we'd come and get them.

The following link tells about a high school girl whom chose to help a friend. She was not drinking, was not even at the event. But rather than have her friend risk driving home and possibly injuring herself and others out on the road, this girl made the decision to go pick her friend up and take her home. Something I would have been very proud of my daughter for doing.

Yet, while the police knew about the situation and the courts chose not to get involved because it was "out of their jurisdiction", the school has punished this responsible young lady.

I just don't understand how, time and time, the public schools keep defending the guilty (especially their precious athletes) when they break the law, yet go out of their way to punish students who are trying their best to be part of the solution to the problems out there. This girl was not in trouble with the law. She did not disobey any law. She did not do this on school time. Yet, she is being harshly punished.

And then the schools wonder why more and more parents are choosing to homeschool.

Read the whole story here:http://downtrend.com/jaye-ryan/responsible-teen-punished-for-doing-good-deed/.