Curfews Should Be Allowed In High School

City council notices that teens are getting into more trouble than usual lately so they decide its time to take action. However, the plain they've come up with isn't very realistic. They've proposed the adoption of a 10:00pm curfew on weekdays and midnight on weekends. This may sound like a good idea to many council members as a way to cut down on juvenile crime, however how is just a curfew going to stop them if they clearly don't care about rules, also, many teens now work late on weekdays and often get home past 10pm, and setting a curfew for teens is the right of their parents, not council. We know from events in the past that if a person is willing to brake one law, adding another law to prevent it is not going to help. These
prom, homecoming, etc.), and directly to and from emergencies such as having to drive somebody to the hospital. Without these exceptions teens could be arrested simply for driving their mother to the hospital when she unexpectedly goes into labor three days early. When a child is born unto a family it's parents are to take responsibility for it and it's actions until they turn 18 years of age. So why is it that the city council thinks that its their right to tell these teens when they have to be home? Though there's no handbook for being a parent, most can typically tell weather or not their child is a trouble maker. It's part of the job as a parent to have rules for their son or daughter and each family raises their children differently. If I was a parent and somebody tried to tell me how to raise my son or daughter I would be absolutely furious. I understand and agree that there needs to be a cut down on juvenile crime but a curfew certainly isn't the proper approach. A mandatory curfew wouldn't help eliminate crime, however it would get teens in trouble just for going home from work, and it'll infringe on the rights of parents. If they want to reduce crime I think they should go back to