CONSEQUENCES OF JUVENILE CRIME NEVER CHANGE SOME EXPERTS SAY KIDS TODAY ARE CONFRONTING SITUATIONS THEY'RE NOT EMOTIONALLY READY TO HANDLE.(CAPITAL REGION)

Byline: MARC CAREY Staff writer

Raising teenagers may not be brain surgery. So why is it such a headache?

Following a month in which juvenile crime involving students at local high schools has jumped into the headlines, the question is: Why?

Why would seemingly well-rounded students allegedly break in and trash houses for beer parties, sell drugs such as LSD and plant homemade bombs? But that is just what authorities are alleging.

In Clifton Park, where six members of the Shenendehowa soccer team werearrested in connection with a break-in and beer party at a vacant suburban home that was trashed. And in Colonie, where 18 students, most of them from Shaker High, were charged in a similar incident. Just two days after the Shaker arrests, …