What School Lunches Look Like In 20 Countries Around The World

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102. That's nothing

It was a brand new high school and the mayor of Marseille came to speak at the opening dedication. Afterward, each student was entitled to two drinks of hard alcohol from several dozen tables covered with cocktail glasses. I think I had a martini and something else. I was 15 years old and some students were as young as 13. In France, alcohol doesn't have the forbidden, taboo allure for young people that it has in the U.S. since kids typically have a glass of wine with their meals at the family table from a young age. I believe this is also true for other countries of Latin influence like Italy and Spain. I never saw young people going overboard on alcohol just to get high and I attended several wild parties during school breaks. I never saw anyone drunk in class or falling asleep in class. Public schools there would quickly expel someone for that. The public school I attended was pretty strict.