We just lost one of our soon to be graduates to a drunk driving accident. The driver of the car she was in was drunk and hit the guard rail on the highway killing the young woman instantly. She would have graduated on the 18th and was going to study nursing in the Fall.
At least these kids will get to talk to their friends again.
I disagree, though, about the lessons these children may take away. The lesson they may take away might be that adults, particularly the police, lie and are devious, and why should they listen when they are told not to do things?
"Maybe what they told me about drinking and driving was a lie, too? Maybe what they told me about drugs being addictive was a lie as well."
I have never known great good to come out of lying when the truth would suffice.