SW VA Teacher Charged Following Underage Drinking Party

pops, you said that teenagers now adays just come into your house and take over. That was what I was responding to. Not in my house they will not. I do have a teenager and he nor his friends would do this in my house. In a few years he will no longer be a teenager and your point is mute. Not all teenagers are the partying destroying kind and I am not a weak parent that has to be super cool with the kids. Your last post makes no sense. NO Teenager is going to come into my house and take it over..now or in a few years, I tought my teenager self respect adn respect for others as well as those that enter my home now and in the future.
And to the one that said it was strange to have 25 kids at your house..not really, they were having a party…it’s not strange. Allowing the alcohol was completely stupid but to have that many teenagers in one place is pretty common.

evaningstar- you said ARE the parent of a teenager.  Mine are all grown and very successful-now.  Just give it a few years and remember what I said and see if you can say the same thing.  I felt the same way as you but things happen….you`ll see.

I too am a parent of a teenager and no teenager is going to come in and take over my house with or without me there. If I was there I would put them out on their ear or the police would do it for me if I was not able, if I was not there my teenager would do the same for fear of what I would do if he didn’t. To even say that an adults household could be taken over by a teenager and there is nothing they could do about it is absolutely ludicrous. I have had non-alcoholic parties at my house many times with up to 40 kids being there. I make myself a presence and the kids that visit my house know that and know what is expected of them. I have had to call a parent to come and get their kid because of alcohol being brought in to my house by them. I called their parent, and the parent told me to just send them home. I then instructed the parent that they would either come and drive the kid home or the police would. Needless to say they came and got their kid and he does not return to my house. If you think you can’t control your house then you can’t. You have to put forth the energy to make sure you are providing a safe environment for other peoples kids to hang out at your house and I take that responsibility very seriously. They all have a good time and that is why they hang out at our house all the time, without drugs and alcohol. This parent had 20-25 kids at her house, did she check on them from time to time or was she in bed like one of the posts stated? How can you go to bed and leave that many kids unsupervised in your home. “IF” that is true then you deserve what you get and should lose your job because you are too irresponsible to be in care of other peoples children. Also, a poster stated that this ladies son wrecked a car and got a dui. If this is true she is truly an unfit parent if she allowed this to happen. You put your kids under a watchful eye, if they screw up that badly you don’t give them the inch to take a mile again. She is lucky he didn’t kill himself when he wrecked. (if that is true)

April,I did not intentionally point fingers at you! I didn’t even know that you were in the house at the time the party got busted. So excuse me for your misunderstanding. I don’t personally know YOU,but I do know your brother & I’ve spoken with many others that know your brother as well say that this isn’t the first party that your brother has been busted at. Sorry. I will not repeat what I’ve heard,any longer. It may be immature for grown women and men to get on here and gossip about this,but they have the comment section on this page for a reason! Maybe not to how far this has been taken,but…they do have bold letters that says “SOUND OFF:“ then a question following that,meaning they are wanting you to state your opinion on this case/article! But I apologize,and I hope that whatever is done will teach your mother and all of the teens busted at this party. I apologize for your misunderstanding.

To those of you accusing this fine lady and public servent—get a life!! Where have you been the last 10 years? Apparently you didnt have teenage kids.
This is what teenagers do now they come in,uninvited, and take over a house for a party if they think no adults are home. Even if the adults are around they will sneak and drink and you would never know it. This poor lady is guilty of only one thing-being the parent of todays teenagers.
My own kids knew that if they had a party when we were gone they would get there butts kicked when I got home.  But you know what happened?? Their friends found out we were gone and they just came on over and took over the house.  Needless to say my son paid the price for all.  The point is things like this happen even if you are a responsible parent.  Give this lady a break.