Drugs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This actually terrifies me about private school. We have an expensive rental house next door and befriended the group of recent college graduates that moved in. They invited us over for a get together. All of them were doing cke openly. All went k-12 private schools.

Don’t let the behavior of a handful of people in a house color your view of everyone who went to or goes to private schools.

+1 Seriously. I grew up here & went to a top k-12 & graduated in the early 90s. There was pot use but nothing more. My friends who went to Langley and Whitman for high school saw a lot more drug use and a lot of hard drugs and pills. I wouldn't generalize it as a private or public issue. There is money and access everywhere in DC.

[Anonymous]

(Speaking as a student in the Upper School)

There's definitely quite a strong presence at Sidwell…

Most of the things being experimented with are not too serious (there's a huge amount of vaping, and weed is fairly common. Perhaps some acid), and it certainly doesn't affect all students to an equal degree. Further, it's quite easy to go for the four years and never even see a hard substance, much less partake in it. So while it's certainly there, it doesn't necessarily define the school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Biggest drug schools are GDS and Field.

What is happening at Field?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Present, involved, aware, communicative, and friendly such that parents feel free to communicate any concerns about their children or their child's classmates or friends behavior to the parents concerned. The risky use I have observed as a very involved parent throughout many years and several children in the GDS Upper School has been limited to alcohol and marijuana. I disapprove of both.

The math, science, english, history, and arts programs at the School are exceptionally strong in both breadth of curriculum offerings and teacher excellence.

Involved Parent, could you ask the GDS students dents to stop vaping and smoking in the alleys near the school? Thanks.

You are a frequent poster so I decided to ask my GDS upper school student about the alleyway vaping and smoking. She looked at me like I was crazy. The story sounds good but is probably more myth than reality, especially now that kids can hide juul and dab pens in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Present, involved, aware, communicative, and friendly such that parents feel free to communicate any concerns about their children or their child's classmates or friends behavior to the parents concerned. The risky use I have observed as a very involved parent throughout many years and several children in the GDS Upper School has been limited to alcohol and marijuana. I disapprove of both.

The math, science, english, history, and arts programs at the School are exceptionally strong in both breadth of curriculum offerings and teacher excellence.

Involved Parent, could you ask the GDS students dents to stop vaping and smoking in the alleys near the school? Thanks.

You are a frequent poster so I decided to ask my GDS upper school student about the alleyway vaping and smoking. She looked at me like I was crazy. The story sounds good but is probably more myth than reality, especially now that kids can hide juul and dab pens in school.

If your daughter is not in the alley, how would she know? If your daughter is in the alley, why would she admit it to you?

[Anonymous]

Huge battle between Sidwell and GDS to be the HS drug capital.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Present, involved, aware, communicative, and friendly such that parents feel free to communicate any concerns about their children or their child's classmates or friends behavior to the parents concerned. The risky use I have observed as a very involved parent throughout many years and several children in the GDS Upper School has been limited to alcohol and marijuana. I disapprove of both.

The math, science, english, history, and arts programs at the School are exceptionally strong in both breadth of curriculum offerings and teacher excellence.

Involved Parent, could you ask the GDS students dents to stop vaping and smoking in the alleys near the school? Thanks.

You are a frequent poster so I decided to ask my GDS upper school student about the alleyway vaping and smoking. She looked at me like I was crazy. The story sounds good but is probably more myth than reality, especially now that kids can hide juul and dab pens in school.

If your daughter is not in the alley, how would she know? If your daughter is in the alley, why would she admit it to you?

Where is the alley?

[Anonymous]

My son is an avid partier. I don't necessarily encourage drug use, but I turn a blind eye because I want him to learn his mistakes and do much of his experimenting in high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Present, involved, aware, communicative, and friendly such that parents feel free to communicate any concerns about their children or their child's classmates or friends behavior to the parents concerned. The risky use I have observed as a very involved parent throughout many years and several children in the GDS Upper School has been limited to alcohol and marijuana. I disapprove of both.

The math, science, english, history, and arts programs at the School are exceptionally strong in both breadth of curriculum offerings and teacher excellence.

Involved Parent, could you ask the GDS students dents to stop vaping and smoking in the alleys near the school? Thanks.

You are a frequent poster so I decided to ask my GDS upper school student about the alleyway vaping and smoking. She looked at me like I was crazy. The story sounds good but is probably more myth than reality, especially now that kids can hide juul and dab pens in school.

If your daughter is not in the alley, how would she know? If your daughter is in the alley, why would she admit it to you?

For senior prank day last year the kids erected a giant juul in the meeting area. You think they did that because nobody is vaping at the school? It was all Over social media and pictures of it were picked up nationally

Where is the alley?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Biggest drug schools are GDS and Field.

What is happening at Field?

Most of the families at field are enormously wealthy. I’m not just talking regular DC money I’m talking the .99% kind of money. With that kind of wealth and parents who are often too busy to pay attention or who buy their children weed to make sure they know where it comes from of course there will be a lot of drugs circulating. Compound that with the fact that the school gives almost no homework and rolls sports into the school Day so kids don’t have a lot to do with their idle time

[Anonymous]

PP's green-eye shade have skewed her perceptions of reality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Present, involved, aware, communicative, and friendly such that parents feel free to communicate any concerns about their children or their child's classmates or friends behavior to the parents concerned. The risky use I have observed as a very involved parent throughout many years and several children in the GDS Upper School has been limited to alcohol and marijuana. I disapprove of both.

The math, science, english, history, and arts programs at the School are exceptionally strong in both breadth of curriculum offerings and teacher excellence.

Involved Parent, could you ask the GDS students dents to stop vaping and smoking in the alleys near the school? Thanks.

You are a frequent poster so I decided to ask my GDS upper school student about the alleyway vaping and smoking. She looked at me like I was crazy. The story sounds good but is probably more myth than reality, especially now that kids can hide juul and dab pens in school.

According to my DC, there is an alley and the kids vaping in it go to Wilson. DC says some GDS students vape but that's not where it's happening. The PP needs to get her facts straight and stop spreading obnoxious rumors.

[Anonymous]

Then the GDS kids need to take the magnets off the cars they park in the alleys.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Biggest drug schools are GDS and Field.

What is happening at Field?

Most of the families at field are enormously wealthy. I’m not just talking regular DC money I’m talking the .99% kind of money. With that kind of wealth and parents who are often too busy to pay attention or who buy their children weed to make sure they know where it comes from of course there will be a lot of drugs circulating. Compound that with the fact that the school gives almost no homework and rolls sports into the school Day so kids don’t have a lot to do with their idle time

sooooo much wrong with your idiotic post. sports at field are AFTER school you dipsh*t. Financial aid is given to about 20% of students. Families with significantly more $$ at STA, Sidwell, Potomac than at Field. Homework is on par at grade levels across different independent schools.

STFU troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Biggest drug schools are GDS and Field.

+1. And GDS parents are in denial about their precious angels, but that’s what happens when you’re raised by nannies.

100%. Definitely a problem at sidwell and sta/ncs too, but gds especially is on a different level

Say more? What are they doing specifically?

It's hyperbole. I have a '19 grad and I have no idea what the "on a different level" means.

I have 3 kids at GDS and the perception that it is worse at GDS than other schools is simply not true. My BFF has kids in top Catholics and the stories she shares with me about drugs and alcohol, including binge drinking, are very troubling. There are drugs at every school. Because of GDS's liberal bent I know there are trolls out there that like to target GDS, but the school has drawn an extremely hard line on this and there does not seems to be any pervasive problem. Are there kids who experiment - yes but it is a small minority and there is a lot of awareness about the dangers and consequences.