The worst thing was that they were proud of their exploits. Some Lakewood girls felt pressured into being intimate with 20 or 25 members of the posse. If you wanted to be accepted in Lakewood High School, you had to give in to it. After several of the boys had been arrested on various felony charges and then released, they returned to their high-school classes, where class members cheered them. Obeying and conforming are two different issues.
People obey superiors, but conform to peers.
Standards are falling all around us. Christians need to buck that trend. Instead of being conformed to the world, we need to be transformed by God. The testimony of the Bible is that a life without Jesus is a life that is empty. That doesn't mean people don't try to fill their lives with tons of activities.