That same sentence and mentality is what fuels the drug war. Kids shouldn't do a lot of things, but guess what they are. They're fukking, taking drugs, experimenting, experiencing a newer level of freedom for the first time in life in high school. And it's an adults job to guide em through it. Everything I just mentioned was going on in your high school and guess what adults were saying? The same shyt you just did.
I agree, If adults were more realistic instead of being on this high horse, I am your elder do as I say, I am right bullshyt perhaps we can reach these kids. Like do adults expect teenagers to be goody too shoes like a 4 or 5 year old in pre-k? We are not dealing with babies anymore, we are dealing with growing adults.
The fact of the matter is, is that, some kids are going to smoke weed or indulge in underage drinking, or drugs. It happens all the time and it happens everyday. It happens with black kids, with white kids, latin kids, arab, rich, poor, middle class, this type of shyt just happens.
What we don't want is to push away these kids from guidance (that comes from us, the adults). What we don't want is for them to abuse drugs and we don't want them to die on some fentanyl shyt because the adults are not even reaching these kids to teach them and educate them about the dangers, They instead have to leran about it from their friend dying at a small get together or house party which is horrible and fukks them up even more.
This backwards way of thinking is going to fukk these kids up even more.