One of my students is a senior in high university, then she is an overachiever.
She gets straight A’s, is a cheerleader, and is in multiple clubs… As a professor I have learned that even the best behaved, most well rounded students often have moments where they rebel or supply into peer pressure… I did an interest in class with my students where they needed to take out their cell iPhones to participate in an interactive quiz. The quiz was on the topic of drugs, including recreational marijuana. I noticed my student did not take her iPhone out. I asked her about it and she said her Mom took her iPhone away. I pulled her aside after class to check in with her. She admitted to me that she got caught using recreational marijuana and her mother grounded her, her punishment for using recreational marijuana included losing iPhone privileges, having to take drug tests for recreational marijuana weekly before university, and not being able to drive her car; My student told me that she had a lapse in judgment and this was her first time trying recreational marijuana. Her entire cheerleading team smoked recreational marijuana at a celebration over the weekend and she was just trying to fit in with everyone else. She told me that she wasn’t thinking straight and she now regrets her decision to smoke recreational marijuana at that celebration. I thanked her for being honorablewith me and I told her that everyone makes mistakes and it seems like she has already learned from her mistake of using recreational marijuana.