Mr. Garabitos's bomb threat sent educators and police officers from the Emergency Services Unit scrambling to take precautions and assess the threat.
But educators, the police and experts in substance abuse say the teenage drinking scene today is far different from what it was a generation ago.
A member of Stamford's school board, Ms. Stephenson then convened a meeting of educators, the police and residents to discuss crime trends and what she saw as a potential peril for the city's children.
"East End Blues: Working Hard and Unable to Buy a Home" (Long Island Journal, April 23) accurately describes the lack of affordable housing on the South Fork of Eastern Long Island and its consequences with respect to the ability of educators, firefighters, police officers, health professionals and others to be able to live in the communities whose residents depend upon their services.
The "Scared Straight" film birthed a slew of community programs, supported by frustrated parents, educators and police who had all tried and failed to get through to at-risk kids.
Over the past year, Secret Service and federal education officials have met with educators and the police nationwide to spread their findings, and many schools have begun hiring so-called school resource officers as liaisons between students, teachers and the police.
In a class-action lawsuit filed on behalf of all New York City public middle and high school students, the N.Y.C.L.U. has asked the court to make school discipline the responsibility of educators — not the police.
Therapists, the police, educators, and substance-abuse prevention agencies are noting a shift in parents' attitudes, with some parents no longer willing to consider drinking a harmless "rite of passage".
The museum also has a contract with California to teach educators and the police about tolerance, and has been retained by New York State to begin offering similar courses in Manhattan next year.
It would be easy to dismiss such stories as bad kids doing bad things, but counselors such as Ms. Niebuhr, educators and the police all have similar stories, saying that while teenagers have always found a way to drink, children are now doing it younger than before, and it doesn't just involve troubled children.
