Are drugs a big/daily encounter at JR?
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Anonymous
| Is this something kids can avoid unless they seek it out or is there drugs/vaping in bathrooms, etc where everyone is exposed? |
Anonymous
| I honestly don't think anyone in this city can avoid the constant cloud of pot smoke that envelops us all. |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
I agree pot smoke is widespread, but that doesn't really answer OP's question. I'd like to know, too, if drugs are encountered with regularity in the building during the school day. |
Anonymous
| My ninth grader says vaping/pot are prevalent. One of her friends got sucked into a druggist crowd and is now always high. |
Anonymous
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Is your worry whether they will see/smell weed and vaping? They will, particularly in the bathrooms.
Or is your worry that it’s so prevalent that “everyone is doing it” and your kid will start smoking weed/vaping? Because the answer to that is, no, not everyone is doing it—and very very few are doing it in school. It’s like cigarette smoking when I was in HS—even in the 80s/90s, relatively few kids smoked habitually, and even fewer smoked in school. But when one did smoke in the bathroom, it smelled for hours. |
Anonymous
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Find a high school in America since 1965 where drugs were not prevalent.
At least they're not smoking actual cigarettes in school anymore. |
Anonymous
Smoking in school was barely even illegal when I started in the late 80s in NC. It was even encouraged until right before I started high school in "smoking pavilions." Glad those are a thing of the past. |
Anonymous
I went to a 7-12 school starting in the early 90s and 11&12 graders were allowed to smoke. And this was in New England. |
Anonymous
My high school in Upstate New York had a smoking lounge for of-age students until the early 1990s. |
Anonymous
| Yea |
Anonymous
| Every school and every group of students has the stoners... even the high achieving, GT/AP cohort. Your job as a parent is to stay on top of it. |
Anonymous
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My freshman says he's not really seeing much drug use at school. He also apparently doesn't use the bathroom at school (something I didn't know either). He never really saw drugs at Deal either. So he might just be clueless?
Or... When I said his answer seemed suspicious in light of other comments here and asked if he was hiding anything, he said that he wasn't hiding anything other than drug use. So... |
Anonymous
Well yeah now it's actual vaping in actual classrooms. It is everywhere. It is astounding to me that vapes are legal. |
Anonymous
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Mine hasn't said anything. He hangs with to his middle school friends. He keeps saying that the school is so big that he doesn't know anything other than 'lots of idiots there'.
He is allowed to leave school for lunch which probably helps to get away. He doesn't hang out after school unless playing rugby. So, I think there is a way to stay away from all the bad influence, but need to be deliberate. |