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Mother accused of buying alcohol for teens on school field trip
WBIR [NBC-10 Knoxville] ^ | 2/24/5 | Kay Watson

Posted on 02/24/2005 7:56:16 AM PST by SmithL

A parent chaperon is accused of buying alcohol for students on a field trip.

Lenoir City Schools Superintendent Wayne Miller, along with police and the District Attorney are investigating the report.

Miller says the incident allegedly happened Saturday night, in Charleston, South Carolina.

Seventeen students and four chaperones from Lenoir City High's Chamber Choir were sightseeing and performing in the city last weekend. They performed in a Baptist Church Sunday.

Miller is still gathering information, but he says it appears a number of students were with a mother, when she stopped at a convenient store and bought the alcohol. He says just three students, including the woman's daughter, later chose to drink it in her presence.

"If a parent had provided my own daughter with alcohol, I would have a serious issue with that," Miller says.

His daughter is involved in the high school choral program, but she wasn't on the trip.

"I have no idea why, no idea why," he reacts. "It's just an example of extremely poor judgment on several people's parts."

Miller says a detailed, itinerary is designed to keep field trips on task. Typically, he trusts parent chaperones to supervise the time in-between scheduled events.

"We don't protect kids from parents, they are our allies," Miller says. "We've always assumed they have the same goals we do, for their children to be as successful as possible and to abide by the rules of school and civil law."

Normally, students caught drinking at school events would see a 365 day suspension because it's a zero tolerance offense.

This time, the consequences, like the circumstances, will likely be different.

Punishment for the parent isn't clear either.

"We're asking the police department to pursue this with all vigor," Miller says of the mother accused. "We'd like to see if there's charges that are able to be filed, that they are filed."

The mother accused has denied her involvement to the school principal.

The superintendent is meeting with all parents to explain what happened and what happens next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. He says counselors will be available.

Miller is also consulting with an attorney about having chaperones sign statements before field trips.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: alcohol; alkymom; education; notrealbaptists
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To: tfecw

A few years back, a High School from the SF Bay Area took a trip to Germany. Everyone knew the rules. When several students were caught drinking, they were immediately put on a plane for home, and their parents were left messages telling them when to pick them up at the airport. Several parents sued, and not only lost, but had to pay the School District's legal costs of $60,000.


21 posted on 02/24/2005 8:16:05 AM PST by SmithL (Proud Submariner)
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To: cyncooper

I am not allowed to have an opinion? I just want to preface my opinions with the fact that I learned to think that way from being on FR....that way when someone jumps on my for MY opinion, they will know where I am coming from.


22 posted on 02/24/2005 8:16:06 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: Yo-Yo
You'd be surprised

Why do you assume anyone here would be surprised?

I would warrant we wouldn't be surprised.

23 posted on 02/24/2005 8:16:41 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: tfecw

Yep. I always like that "In School Suspension."
At our school, it was a windowless room with a
supervisor collecting the finished assignments
at the end of the day. Assignments unfinished?
Another day added on with a few more assignments.
The kids sure avoided that place like the plague.


24 posted on 02/24/2005 8:17:35 AM PST by Grendel9
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To: yellowdoghunter
I am not allowed to have an opinion?

What an idiotic response.

That's my opinion.

25 posted on 02/24/2005 8:17:54 AM PST by cyncooper
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To: SmithL
"The superintendent is meeting with all parents to explain what happened and what happens next Thursday at 4:30 p.m. He says counselors will be available."

lol.... I guess some of the parents might be traumatized. Not that this was a good idea, but it's not the end of the world for high school age kids to have a drink. It cracks me up that something so innocuous can send everyone into fits.
26 posted on 02/24/2005 8:17:54 AM PST by monday
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To: cyncooper

And you have the right to it. Why did you feel the need to even respond to my post? I very rarily respond directly to someone's post because it is their opinion and they are entitled to it.

That is my opinion.


27 posted on 02/24/2005 8:22:25 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: yellowdoghunter
You know ...I've seen alot of your posts too throughout....and I am concluding that....
1. You were a bad mother.
2. You were a bad wife.
3. You want to be punished for it.

Please correct me if i'm wrong.

28 posted on 02/24/2005 8:22:48 AM PST by Torties
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To: tjwmason

On a school trip, all kids are beneath the legal age, (the article does not say but I assume 21). The mom is in very deep trouble. A teacher in this situation would be fired for cause. As a teacher on a school trip we found a student smoking marijuana. (In the '79s) We were five hours from home, the parent was called and the kid taken from the trip that night. I don't remember if the school took action later or not.

I don't see that the school needs to involve the legal system, but that seems to be the approach more and more as schools don't want to handle discipline problems themselves. The parents of the kids involved are free to seek damages against the parent, the school certainly can discipline the students involved. I would suggest the penalty be less than a years suspension, as the crime seems to not rise to that level, but these zero tolerance types have to live with their rules.


29 posted on 02/24/2005 8:26:26 AM PST by KC_for_Freedom (Sailing the highways of America, and loving it.)
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To: Torties

Well, I have no children, been married 4 years. First marriage for both. Planning on children, but getting prepared first.

So you are wrong on everything.


30 posted on 02/24/2005 8:28:31 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: SmithL

Would this have been OK, back when it was legal to drink at 18?


31 posted on 02/24/2005 8:31:28 AM PST by stuartcr
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To: yellowdoghunter
Ok. Just trying to figure out why you are so mad at women....


32 posted on 02/24/2005 8:36:28 AM PST by Torties
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To: Torties

Not all women, just those who put their needs ahead of their children, in this case, the need of the mother to be "cool", to be a friend.....I am just past my breaking point with women who sacrifice their children for whatever reason.

But I must keep reminding myself that women hold no blame or responsibility for what happens to their children.


33 posted on 02/24/2005 8:41:11 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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To: tfecw


That's why so many kids Turn to marijuana. I was just in Highschool last year,

And marijuana is much too easy to get. That's why so many Highschool kids smoke it, it is much easier to get than alcohol.


34 posted on 02/24/2005 8:41:23 AM PST by LauraleeBraswell ( CONSERVATIVE FIRST-Republican second.)
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To: LauraleeBraswell

You are hereby encouraged to attend an AA meeting. "Drinking beer only" is something you will hear as a failed attempt to control drinking.


35 posted on 02/24/2005 8:50:29 AM PST by freedom7
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To: SmithL
it appears a number of students were with a mother, when she stopped at a convenient store and bought the alcohol

If only the store hadn't been so "convenient," none of this would have happened.

36 posted on 02/24/2005 8:52:36 AM PST by trad_anglican
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To: SmithL
when she stopped at a convenient store and bought the alcohol

Probably beer or wine cooler. Convenient stores don't normally sell hard liquor based on my experience.

37 posted on 02/24/2005 8:52:45 AM PST by Donald Rumsfeld Fan ("Memos on Bush Are Fake but Accurate". NYTimes)
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To: yellowdoghunter
I guess what I'm getting at is.....'why' are you so mad? I guess that would be nosy...but it just seems like you have some deeper rooted resentment for some reason.....like you have this really bitter pill you are trying to swallow all your life...and it comes out in your posts. To me anyway....


38 posted on 02/24/2005 8:53:17 AM PST by Torties
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To: LauraleeBraswell
well lots of things are easy to get if one were inclined.

I agree that liqueur is "worse" then beer, but beer can still be pretty dangerous. American kids (16-23) have this notion of "We have to drink it all tonight" That idea is the biggest danger involved with drinking. We demonize booze and kids who have free access to it or can legally buy it for the first time abuse the heck out of it.

I think responsibility is the key. Remember the old Stovetop commercials where the kid casually tells his friend that they are having stovetop tonight. His friend flips out because he NEVER has stovetop. his other friend however gets it in moderation so it's not a big deal to him. Europe also doesn't have kids drinking themselves to death on college campuses.
39 posted on 02/24/2005 8:56:51 AM PST by tfecw (Vote Democrat, It's easier then working)
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To: Torties

It is just about protecting children. I make no apologies for that. Yes, I have a deep resentment for women who do not take care of their children. If we all became fanatics about protecting children, like we have with smoking, this world would be a better place.


40 posted on 02/24/2005 8:57:04 AM PST by yellowdoghunter (Liberals should be seen and not heard.)
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