Teacher fired for allowing 18-year-old students to drink wine… during trip to France (legal, Canada)
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I have mixed feelings on this one. Drinking wine at that age is legal in France, and it wasn't like they went out and got hammered. In a way, it was a cultural experience which was the point of the trip.
However, the teacher should have advised her headmaster or whatever of her plans. It was smart to get the parents' permission, but if the school ok'd it ahead of time they would not have fired her.
I wonder what the reaction would have been had they stopped at a pot shop during a layover in Amsterdam.
I have mixed feelings on this one. Drinking wine at that age is legal in France, and it wasn't like they went out and got hammered. In a way, it was a cultural experience which was the point of the trip.
However, the teacher should have advised her headmaster or whatever of her plans. It was smart to get the parents' permission, but if the school ok'd it ahead of time they would not have fired her.
I wonder what the reaction would have been had they stopped at a pot shop during a layover in Amsterdam.
Parents should have the final say, and if no laws were broke and the parents don't have a problem with it, than the school is wrong.
I live in Michigan, bordering Canada. Canada's legal drinking age is 19. Michigan's is 21. It isn't uncommon for 19 year olds (such as myself at the time) to visit Windsor and get S-faced as a rite of passage. No one complained about that...
I live in Michigan, bordering Canada. Canada's legal drinking age is 19. Michigan's is 21. It isn't uncommon for 19 year olds (such as myself at the time) to visit Windsor and get S-faced as a rite of passage. No one complained about that...
I live in Michigan, bordering Canada. Canada's legal drinking age is 19. Michigan's is 21. It isn't uncommon for 19 year olds (such as myself at the time) to visit Windsor and get S-faced as a rite of passage. No one complained about that...
I too grew up in SE Michigan and spent many nights in Windsor... but I don't ever remember going there on a field trip. The teacher should have just instituted a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
I too grew up in SE Michigan and spent many nights in Windsor... but I don't ever remember going there on a field trip. The teacher should have just instituted a "don't ask, don't tell" policy.
This is a good point. A field trip still constitutes students under teacher and school care, which are zero-tolerance. So, that's the only (wrong, personally) case I can see here.
But still, if teachers knew and were held responsible for everything students did on field trips, we wouldn't have teachers.
Patriot Act, biometrics, holograms, etc. A passable fake ID is not cheap enough to buy just for underage drinking anymore.
It is when it's a real ID that just looks like you. It's a lot easier to sell your "lost" ID than it is to find someone to make you a fake one.
And besides, if you're buying a fabricated ID for alcohol, you don't need any of the security measures anyway.
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