UKking, it's obvious you don't have kids.
Is this in the best of taste? No. Did it cause any permanent harm? No.
You could sue over this. You would lose and then have to pay the defense costs of whoever you targeted. Others here would call it a frivolous suit; I won't because I hate that term. It is a meritless suit since I don't think that you could prove any harm was done. If it was, then the message got through and the kids will lay off the boozen driving.
I don't have any sort of problem with this sort of thing, namely because a kid in my graduating class in high school was in a drunk driving accident about 3 months before graduation. Thankfully it was a one car accident, and he was the only one hurt, but he was still in rehab when we graduated.
And don't manipulate children? Please. Anyone who's been around a 2 year old for longer than 5 minutes knows that the ONLY way to get them to do what they're told is to manipulate them into cooperating. And unless and until you're ready to start taking on the toy, breakfast cereal and entertainment industries, your indignant stand against manipulation by the schools looks pretty shallow.
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