9: Alcohol Video
Transcript:
Chapter 9 Video
RESPONSE: I know a kid who sneaks liquor from his parent’s house most afternoons. He goes out with some other kids to drink. His parents didn’t realize it at first. They didn’t notice his grades slipping either. Or how some of his friends were slipping away, too. It wasn’t until he was cut from the basketball team that they thought to ask. He told them he’d missed too many practices. He didn’t tell them the real reason why.
RESPONSE: I know a kid whose brother was really smart. He got a scholarship to an Ivy League school, so he spent most of his senior year of high school going to parties, having fun. Until he drank too much one night and he wrapped his Mom’s car around a tree. He was charged with a DUI, he lost his scholarship. Wasn’t smart enough, I guess.
RESPONSE: I know a kid whose older sister got put in the hospital for alcohol poisoning. Her friends found her on the floor, eyes closed, barely breathing. They thought she was dead at first. This kid I know, she was devastated because her older sister had always been someone she could look up to. And she almost lost the person she admired most.
RESPONSE: I know a kid who had trouble making friends in middle school. She struggled in class. Spent most of her time alone. Didn’t get along with her parents. But if she had enough to drink, none of that mattered. She said it was the easiest way to forget about everything terrible going on in her life. It made her feel better. So she didn’t care when it made her feel worse.
RESPONSE: I know a kid whose Dad drinks all the time. He drinks and shouts and curses and calls the kid names. I know a kid whose afraid to come out of his room some nights. Who would rather not be in the house at all.
RESPONSE: I know a kid who is curious. Who wants to try alcohol because he thinks it would be fun. Because it would make him popular with certain people at school. Who doesn’t get what the big deal is. In fact, I know a few kids like that.
RESPONSE: I know a kid...
RESPONSE: A smart kid...
RESPONSE: A good kid...
RESPONSE: A lonely kid...
RESPONSE: A scared kid...
RESPONSE: With a decision to make.