Some Date! (Highschool/College Scene: No Date, No Dance, Just Hanging Out and Hooking Up?)

Wall Street Journal ^ | November 1, 2007 | Jeff Zaslow

[LongTimeMILurker]

As I said before, sexual development and preparedness for life responsibilities are two completely different things. Just because you can make a baby doesn’t mean you are prepared to raise it, and that goes for women as well as men. Look at how many grandmothers are raising their grandchildren by their daughters!

[LongTimeMILurker]

As far as reunions go, I have found that if you treat these people with respect, and are always nice to them, they usually come around by the next reunion. I am modestly successful and that makes it a little easier for all of us. I’ve got the young ladies who rejected me in high school totally regretting that they never dated me. That is the best type of revenge anyone can hope for. There are a few people who will never change, but not many.

[AnAmericanMother]

Come round to my daughter's college - Davidson near Charlotte NC - and you will be VERY pleasantly surprised.

A nice, neatly groomed and dressed, well-behaved bunch of courteous, intelligent young men and women.

They aren't ALL gone to the dogs . . . .

[AnAmericanMother]

It's an old-line Atlanta private Christian school - it was originally Presbyterian but is now nondenominational Christian. Very strong academically, excellent music and theater programs. Unfortunately it's not cheap :-( but it was worth it.

The public schools are so bad in Atlanta that everybody who can even arguably afford it sends their kids to private school if they don't home-school -- and all the private schools are expensive, the denominational schools are about 30% cheaper, but the old established private schools are within 1,000 or so of each other. So they've got you over a barrel . . . .

Daughter is third generation in our family to graduate from there. She was class of '06, I was class of '73, and my mom was class of '43.

[AnAmericanMother]

Suburban Atlanta, GA.

[JamesP81]

The other thing I've noticed, is that some women now drive as agressively and obnoxiously as some men.

I don't know if this is a man / woman thing as much as it's a stupidity / inconsiderate thing. Most bad drivers are either doing something stupid or are simply inconsiderate of others that have to share the road with them.

[AmericanInTokyo]

glad to hear that!!

[Scythian]

After Iran, we take Detroit ...

[AnAmericanMother]

Not to say there aren't some frat types who drink more than is good for them . . . but by and large I was very pleasantly surprised by the tone of the place! Food is amazingly good, too . . . certainly a lot better than it was when I was in school.

I tend to sneak around semi-incognito in places where parents usually don't go . . . daughter and I spent some time when we were investigating schools just hanging out in the student centers, wandering through the libraries and sitting on benches outside classrooms. Amazing how you can get a feel for a place doing your best "fly on the wall" imitation . . . .

Probably you will get a quieter and more stable community in a small college like this one than in a large state university.

[fortunecookie]

It’s true. Sometimes called ‘friends with benefits’.

[savedbygrace]

Miss Zaslow needs a father. Currently, she doesn’t have one.

This loser shou;d be hanging his head, rather than announcing his loserness to the world.