Weekends brought fleeting relief. “My friends and I worked so hard all week that we felt like we deserved to let go,” she said. They’d binge drink, sometimes to the point of blacking out. Amanda said there was a tacit agreement in town between some parents and their teens that you could do whatever you wanted on the weekends as long as you were performing during the week. Some parents, she told me, would supply the booze and even join them in the drinking. Amanda’s parents had a different perspective: “They
