Editor, The Times:

I am writing this letter in response to "Monitor the Partying" in the May 27 issue of this paper. As a parent of two teenagers in Clearwater, I took a great deal of offense to the implications of this letter.

Although the words "some parents" were mentioned, I feel that it was directed to "all parents."

I am neither ignorant or willfully blind to the consequences of drugs and alcohol, and I know that I speak for many parents when I say that there is a definite line between condoning an action and being realistic to a lifestyle.

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