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Ok I'm confused here. Did everyone here live in a convent when they were 18?? Are you telling me that none of you partied when you were that age? (Which is technically an adult by the way.)

Do you only exchange phone numbers with people you know? What is the need to exchange numbers then? How do you date exactly if you only hang out with people you know?

I don't think there is anything out of the ordinary about this except that the curfew was probably set too late.
What about all of the other cheerleaders and football players that were partying at the hotel that night? I'm sure most of them had adult chaperones there as well and most probably set fairly late curfews. No one is upset about those kids or their chaperones because they came back safe.

Has no one here ever drank too much when they were young? It's happened to just about everyone.

The only thing I see that this women may have done wrong is set the curfew too late and I don't think that is reason enough to condemn her for what was a tragic accident. She did not know they were going to go to a liquor store and buy booze either.
Did you let your parents know when you were drinking underage? Give me a break! Pretty much most teenagers experiment with alcohol even if we tell them not to and most teenagers go out and party with friends and give phone numbers out to cute boys or girls that they meet. There is nothing unusual about any of that.
Do I like it, being that I have a young son and am looking ahead to when he is a teenager, no it scares me, but I'm not going to keep him locked up in a bubble to make sure nothing can happen to him.
What about all those teenagers that go unchaperoned to Cancun for spring break and are even younger. What do all of you think they do there anyway??

As far as missing curfew, 2 of the girls came back on time and the only reason the girl who died did not was because she had fallen off a balcony. Remember as soon as Sadler knew she was missing she started trying to locate her. If the girl didn't answer her cell phone at 2am she was probably already dead.

Now to anyone who is going to attack me for being a bad parent, I never suggested that the teenagers behavior is necessarily ok, just that it is pretty darned normal for this age group and in my opinion is not Sadler's fault. It was an accident! Just think about the next time your son or daughter asks to go to a friends party on the weekend. This could happen to anyone.

What happened to this girl would actually be a good tool for teaching our kids what can happen in these kinds of situtations. A good scare is always helpful in keeping kids out of trouble.