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Raise the Drinking Age to 19- School Board Asks

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rosencrentz

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http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Raise-drinking-age-to-19-school-division-demands-40528587.html
The legal age is 18, so the 18 year old students need to be drunk to get through some of the boring courses? lol
Why not just have a rule that if you are caught drunk at school the school will ask you to leave?
Oh wait, isn't it legal to drink at 18? damn it!
Tough on a bureaucracy when the students can have more fun that the teachers!
How about expelling the teachers who are so bad that the students need to drink to go to those teachers classes?
Very funny situation!

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Deank

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I could not believe it when I heard this. Yeah way to waste some more time and money... it is simple... drink vodka while out at lunch!

Freeman

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Another example of highly paid bureaucrats wanting someone else to do their heavy lifting. If the "adult" has been drinking, then toss them out of school. If a "child" chas been drinking, call the parents. Tell these school officials to do their job and not expect someone else to do it for them.

Deank

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The fun part is where Teachers will still be allowed to go out at lunch time and drink and somehow thats just fine. Heck our one science teacher used to keep his vodka stored in the back of the class in the "dangerous chemicals" room and he would be drinking as early as 9AM. His punishment when finally caught actually drinking at school? 6 months paid "vacation" to get over his addiction and his job back, they could not turf him for being drunk at school, they could just nail him when they finally physically caught him in the act of drinking at school.... nice punishment.

grumpy old man

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The Teachers Union was merely doing its' job: protecting the teacher and the hell with the kids...

Freeman

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GOM, this was not the teachers union, but the Manitoba Association of School Trustees. You see, the province created school divisions with elected trustees to handle the ongoing administration of the public school system, but there are so many school divisions, the province has trouble dealing with them all, so the trustees created an association, which can take their collective voice to the province. Do you understand? I don't.

Deank

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"the trustees created an association,"

an association which they have to pay significantly to be members of....

Guest

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One has to understand that the NDP and Doer wish to have everybody in the province employeed by the government. They must create lots and lots of little associations and groups to have us belong to...it's their goal...in their manifesto...bloody commie bastards.

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And the circle go's round and round .

Guest

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Or the drink goe's down and down .

Deank

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Raising the age is such a stupid idea it aint even funny.. the people who are apt to drink at lunch or on spares or whatever, are just as likely to drink illegally. Hell they are less likely to drink more in a licenses establishment, just because it costs more and takes longer to get served so the arguement would make more sense to lower the drinking age.

Freeman

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I have a better idea. Rather than raising the drinking age to 19, why not raise the minimum IQ requirement for trustees to 70, that way we would have fewer idiots coming up with stupid ideas like this.

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Yes hey there is always mister can you do me a favour at the lc.

Triniman

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Socialist engineering doesn't work and is an excuse to expand government, unionized jobs.
Just eliminate the drinking age. Let parents decide how old is old enough and when the person turns 18, and is an adult, let them drink without parental consent.

grumpy old man

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Freeman wrote:I have a better idea. Rather than raising the drinking age to 19, why not raise the minimum IQ requirement for trustees to 70, that way we would have fewer idiots coming up with stupid ideas like this.
That's crazy talk. Being an idiot has been the way it always has been. Why change now? No need. If it ain't broke don't fix it.

Freeman

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Pardon me, you're right, that was a stupid idea on my part. Heyyy, does that mean I can become a school trustee???

EdWin

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Okay, so let's say we raise the drinking age to 19. But what will be do with all the 19 year olds that go for a beer or 10 at lunch during university and are willing to buy booze for their 18 year old little brothers and sisters? Well, I guess we'll have to raise the legal age to 20. But what will be do with all the 20 year olds that go for a beer or 10 at lunch during university and are willing to buy booze for their 19 year old little brothers and sisters? Well, I guess we'll have to raise the drinking age to 21. But what about...................................

Raising the age is futile in situations like this. Other methods must be developed to properly address the situation.



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Freeman

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EdWin wrote:Raising the age is futile in situations like this. Other methods must be developed to properly address the situation.

I dunno, lesser minds than ours came up with the idea.

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why don't they just lower the drinking age to 14? That would wipe out the problem of underage drinking... Razz

Deank

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hey... wait just a damn minute... they did not say that they actually had a problem that tons of kids were coming to school drunk.. they said that they thought maybe some kids might go out and drink at lunch time.

Holy COW... this makes this little farce of thiers about 1000 times worse... they are not even trying to fix a problem...they are just randomly shooting in the dark at ghosts...

Freeman

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Yea, and to think how much you pay these guys. Its like having hte Marx brothers running the school system.

Freeman

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Wait a minute, maybe they had been out drinking at lunch when they came up with this idea?

grumpy old man

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More to the point me thinks.

Deank

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Pass me another beer... hic.. shay can you imagun if ..hic... one of the ..hic.. kids came in here at lunsh.. oo she has a nice butt...what was I say... yeah right can you imagine if one the kids came in here at lunchs and see us all drinkun? we got to stop a put to that.

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Define itley...got to stop a put...commly sterbasts.



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