Editor’s note: This archival story was originally published on December 30th, 2016.
If I wrote a blog post today about three Lake Highlands High School students arrested for breaking into several homes over Christmas — making off with some $5,600 worth of stolen holiday gifts — and arrested while attempting to flush large amounts of marijuana down the toilet, what might readers say?
I can see the Facebook comments now — “kids these days,” “today’s youth,” “what is this world coming to,” and so forth. We might even go on about how the high school is going to pot, so to speak, or maybe that this sounds like the behavior of kids, possibly those who live in apartments, who lack proper supervision…