Drinking In High School

High school is sometimes overwhelming for a majority of teens. There is balancing out your social life, athletic events/ practices, academics, and a job sometimes. Academics can be extremely stressful in high school, so some students relieve their stress my drinking alcohol. I feel that drinking in high school was a very popular event. It is not hard for most students to get alcohol because they can get it from their parents or from older siblings/relatives. In the last couple years there have been programs that are being incorporated into some high schools. The program is called “Most Teens Don’t” and this program consists of a group of students who are trying to deter other high school students from underage drinking. There are also other …show more content…
Also if their high school did not have a program like this; I asked them if they thought a program similar to this one would be helpful in deterring high school students from drinking. From the surveys filled out every student feels like the “Most Teens Don’t” program does not have a major impact on students drinking alcohol. Even someone who used to be part of the program said “I felt like it wasn’t affecting a thing or anyone.” One student thought that the program opens people’s eyes, but it doesn’t have enough of an impact. Students from other schools, which did not have the program, felt like the program would be successful if the students actually spoke up about not drinking. Sixty six percent of the students in the schools that have the program do drink and a hundred percent of the students in the non-program schools do drink. Some of the main reasons why the students don’t drink are because they want to focus on school work, focus on athletics, and because they think it isn’t worth getting in trouble and ruining their future. Of the kids who drink, all of them said they only do it once in a while or like once or twice a month. There were no students that said they drank all of the time and all of the students who took the surveys were either a junior or a …show more content…
So from the data you could actually say that the program does have a positive impact on students, even if students don’t feel so. According to another survey of high school students show that only three out of four (seventy seven percent) don’t drink alcohol (MADD). Their survey was to raise awareness of the dangers of drugs and alcohol among high school students. In their data about seventy percent of students have never even tried alcohol and only seven percent of the students tried alcohol, but has not tried it again since (MADD). So according to their data, only twenty three percent of students drink regularly. A huge difference in their experiment from my own is that their main goal was to raise awareness. They never took in account of what schools had a program that deterred students from drinking and the schools without this type of program. According to their own results, almost all students know the negative effects of underage drinking because they do not drink at all or just have tried it once. These schools where they took the surveys could have had a major program already that deterred students from drinking. I feel like the area could affect the results of the experiment drastically. A huge similarity that came from my data and the