At least four after-ball parties have been axed as organisers run for cover after a police crackdown and concerns over teen drunkenness.

The parents of a King's College student who died in his sleep in February have left a heartfelt message to the mother of another boy who died this week.

The Government's chief science adviser has warned of a "new biological reality" behind recent youth tragedies.

Students from top Auckland school King's College are in a "state of disbelief" after the death of a third student since February.

Turnover rates at some schools are sitting at around 56 per cent - more than half of the children who start the year don't finish there.

Parents of students at a top Catholic girls' school are organising an after-ball party with alcohol - despite police warnings.

A pupil from King's College in Auckland has been admitted to hospital, where he remains in a critical condition.

Manukau's liquor licensing agency is drawing up a list of school ball dates, and will send inspectors to follow buses to after-ball parties.

A party consultant is telling high school students how they can get away with taking booze to after-ball parties.

A high school after-ball party with a van-load of alcohol was busted by police and liquor licensing inspectors in an early morning raid today.

Public concern over "apero geants", or giant open-air drinks parties, is growing after the horrific death of a student in France.

Today's teens are telling the same fibs their parents told to cover their boozing, but are drinking high-potency "lolly" drinks with the sole aim of getting "trashed".

Half of New Zealanders support the reintroduction of corporal punishment in schools, according to a national survey of 1000 people.