…you get more underage kids with fake i.d.’s busted in a bar.
If they get the reprimand that the kids from Temptation got, they will not have learned anything. Writing an essay about alcohol abuse? If they had fake i.d.’s, what’s to stop them from yanking a pret-a-porter essay off the internet and passing it in as their own?
Hard time is not the answer, but more of an intervention should be attempted. Just reading materials about alcohol abuse is not going to have any power over them, since most students either don’t bother to read, or have insufficient comprehension.