DT> School problems go with the territory.  Still, I think that the 
DT> majority 
DT> of students go to school for the right reasons. 
    True, but the few really bad apples are a great strain on both other 
students and the faculty...just like K-12!
DT> MS>read!  Profs _do_ face serious discipline problems.     Ask any
DT> MS>campus-police chief about how much of his campus's rapes and
DT> MS>vandalism are related to intoxication.    
DT> 
DT> Now drinking and the problems produced are not a college problem but 
DT> a 
DT> societal one -- something you as a lawyer should be aware of.  
    True, but irrelevant to the issue of whether excessive drinking is more a 
problem for profs than for K-12 teachers.
    HS seniors are prohibited from drinking on campus or even coming to 
school intoxicated under strict disciplinary rules and are further kept from 
doing so by the fact that they live with their parents, but college freshmen 
the same age have none of these restraints.  (We both know that the legal 
drinking age laws aren't enforced much on campuses.)
DT> Joke>   Drunk student CAN be expelled and are if they have persistent 
DT> problem.  As far as drunk students in public schools...the same is 
DT> true...they can be expelled...drinking on campus is not tolerated 
    It takes a whole _lot_ more to get a college student expelled for 
drunkenness or excessive drinking than it does for a HS kid the same age.  
(Has any college kid recently been expelled or suspended for just bringing a 
six-pack on campus, which is the norm if a HS kid is caught with one?)
    Also remember that the college kid is no longer living with his parents, 
and is living without their restraint for the first time in his life.
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