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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (40289)	6/13/1999 12:05:00 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Last night was my daughters' HS graduation. They had not gone on the Senior Trip. Five of the girls who went on the trip were found with alcohol in their room and were denied the right to participate in the graduation. It may seem a small thing in the scope of the tragedies you have been discussing, but to them and their parents it was a devastating prohibition. AND more to the point for me, partly because of the absence of classmates some of whom had been with my daughters in the same small school for 13 years, and partly because of the extreme community focus on this event (at least one girl who seemed to be equally involved, but was valedictorian and ASB President and whose very assertive parents, rumor has it, threatened to sue the school district if their daughter was excluded from the ceremonies, was allowed to participate while the others were not), it soiled the graduation for my daughters and the other, innocent, students who had to suffer. Their parents let them go on this trip knowing that they might make a bad choice and might face this consequence. (The parents could have forbidden them going simply by refusing to sign permission slips.) Should we be angry at the parents for allowing this to happen? Or should we say that the girls had free will, that the parents had a responsibility to let them exercise that free will, and that if the exercise of free will leads to wrong choices and pain for innocent people, that is the nature of free will?