Sometimes having a curfew is a good thing. When you’re 15 and just beginning your dating adventures, your mom saying she wants you home at 11 p.m. is understandable. At 18 and 19 however, when you are hours away from home, having a curfew sometimes can be a burden.
If you do not come back to campus, you have to sign out. The process takes no longer than five minutes, but it requires information that some people just are not comfortable giving. It seems almost as if we are not trusted to act as adults. Our parents trust us to be hours away from home; our school should trust our parents’ decision to let us out of the house by respecting our privacy, especially when we are off campus.
Having a curfew has a tendency to bring out the rebel inside all of us. Saying we have to be back on campus at midnight causes some people to leave at 11:45 instead of 11:30 just to see how close they can cut it. It makes for a nice adrenaline rush when you don’t get into the dorm until seconds before curfew.
Curfew does work well for some people, though. It makes balancing school and social life easier by limiting how late you can be out on certain days. This can help structure study schedules and homework times.
While having a curfew might work for some, it is not what others of us are used to because we understand what hours are decent times to be home.
If we are not given the chance to be free now, how will we be able to handle the responsibility of freedom?
Courtnie Clemmons is a freshman at Oklahoma Christian University
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