Help! 16yo bought beer on school tour.

[NoNoNoNo]

So my 16yo boy wonder goes to Germany on his school tour, and despite teachers' specifically asking the group not to go to a pub, he goes to a pub, buys beer and brings it back to the hotel for himself and his friends. teacher finds out, predictably and reasonably unimpressed. Phones headmaster at home who is now "considering the matter".

WTF do I do with the child when he comes home? This isn't the first time he has shown spectacularly bad judgement and disrespect for authority.

Possible sanctions from school include being sent home (at our expense) as well as the usual things that I guess include detentions, suspensions, etc. He's never been suspended or anything like that before, but he has been a bit stupid with his friends around halloween and thingslike that. A year ago he was getting into bother at school for talking in class, acting the clown, but nothing this bad.

So, what do I do? Ground him til he's 27? Talk to him (again!)? take away some things like his nintendo DS etc? Sell him on ebay?

the trouble is, he geuinely doesn't seem to be able to exercise good judgement when it's competing with the chance to show off to his friends. Advise me please ....

Makes it much more difficult to be angry with him when it he hasn't actually done anything illegal. I realise he has broken the school rule. My DS and his mates when to Berin for a week when they were 16 and spent every night out clubbing. They got into deep trouble on the last night/early morning when one of their number was caught painting graffiti on what they thought was a legal graffiti wall! It wasn't! They were all hauled off to the police station for a talking to and ended up missing their plane home. You can imagine they weren't popular. Anyway, one year later DS went on a school trip to Berlin and had to "follow the rules". They were allowed to go out in groups of four and had to be in by a certain time - 11 I think but then they drank in the hotel bar with the staff. Good time had by all.