One of the color guard girls was someplace where she had two sips of beer (her statement; more or less, who knows?) That was dumb but understandable. Or maybe its understandable but dumb. It's why we will occasionally let our daughter taste wine, on the few times that we have it. This was, likely, just a lark.
Putting it on Facebook, where the school could find out -- that was seriously dumb. She dearly loves color guard. She's now suspended from all non-academic activities for 45 days -- including the big finale of color guard for the year.
When I asked my daughter if the kids thought a different punishment would have been fairer, she said they couldn't think of one. Me, neither. The kid has to know how seriously its taken -- and this isn't the school being rigid about silly things; this kind of screwup really does have the potential for disaster -- but still.
It was dumb, and stupid, but I feel sorry for her.
3 comments:
Totally. But what a hard lesson to learn!
A little extreme, methinks. (I've been more than sipping beer since I was 16!)
And YOU turned out all right, right, CA? Well, except for the motorcycle thing.
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