SADD Plays Dead for Fellow Teens
Rivaling teen age drug abuse in it’s destructive impact on our nation’s teenagers is teen age alcohol abuse. It is a scourge that parent of troubled teenagers have to vigilant about at all times, but summer is when the dangers seem to multiply.
With more time on their hands, troubled teenagers are more likely to engage in drinking at the beach or pool side. There are always fatalities on our nations lakes and rivers from drunk teens careless use of jet skis and speed boats.
“According to SADD statistics, every 32 minutes of every day, a life is lost as a result of an impaired-driving crash.”
Before school let out for the summer, students from SADD demonstrated those statistic to their fellow teens in hopes of painting a graphic picture of how those statistic would decimate their class. Teen help is essential in the battle against teen drinking.
Relevant Tags:drunk teens, fellow teens, grim reaper, impaired driving, sadd, teen age alcohol abuse, teen age drug abuse, teen drinking, teen help“This empowers kids to reach out to their own peers, and that has a powerful effect,” Petrone said. “They expect parents or leaders to say this, but they are not expecting it from a student — it’s all about empowering students.”
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“It was a normal sunny Thursday morning for Meredith Fall, a junior at Juan Diego Catholic High School. But at 9:09 her day changed. From then on she was a “ghost” in the halls of the school.Students at Juan Diego Catholic High School walk the halls dressed as ghosts during an activity to show that every 32 minutes a life is lost in an impaired-driving accident…”
White-faced and silent, no one spoke to Fall or more than a dozen other students who were plucked by the school’s Grim Reaper throughout the day to represent sobering fatality statistics linked to drunken driving”.
