So there is some concern that alcohol is a problem that must be addressed. There is clearly reason for implementing a parental notification clause. There are several key issues at play here, issues which reach deeper than a single policy on notifying parents. Bob Crow and Shirley Hoogstra eloquently described how adulthood is a process more than a hoop one leaps through at 18. They are right.
Adulthood is a process.
But while it is a process, it is not a smooth-line transition. Rather, it is more of a staircase process, marked by significant events in the development of a person. High school may be the first step in this process. In high school, students are given greater academic and social freedom and increased space to develop individually. There are all necessary precursors to adulthood.