What happens if…
![[Post New]](/jforum/templates/default/images/icon_minipost_new.gif){kind=icon}
Anonymous
| your kid is caught smoking pot at their high school? I’m curious about how the high schools deal with this. Thank you. |
Anonymous
| Nothing. What will you do as a parent? |
Anonymous
| What do you mean nothing? Do they just send them back to class high? |
Anonymous
| Report to MCPD, if it's a crime, it's their job to deal with it. |
Anonymous
| This is OP. Seriously, I am just looking at different districts. I have seen a lot of posts about what has happened at different schools under extreme circumstances. I’m just wondering under “normal” circumstances what would happen if a kid was found vaping on school property? Do they refer them to guidance? Is there any set of routines for handling this situation? |
Anonymous
More than likely nothing. |
Anonymous
Never. MCPS is not reporting kids to MCPD for smoking pot. Do you really want this to happen? It would disproportionately target kids of certain races. Nothing happens if your kid is caught smoking pot. How would the kid get 'caught'? Security doesn't have the time and manpower to go after every kid smoking pot in high school. |
Anonymous
\ Vaping? At our MS, it's just ignored when students vape. My kid has seen students vaping as they walk through the hallways, right in front of teachers. Nobody says anything. |
Anonymous
|
This is guided by the code of conduct: https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/uploadedFiles/students/rights/0851.22_2022-23_STUDENT_Code%20of%20Conduct_WEB.pdf
On page 25 of the document, it spells out this category of offense, which is a level 3 or level 4 offense. The reality is it, it's up to the principal and assistant principals on how this is handled and there's a lot of leeway they can have. Some principals take a lax response so your kid might get a slap on the wrist and nothing major. Other principals who maybe have a school community with a more active (i.e. more likely to complain) parent community will be more strict and might lay down the hammer more harshly. Your mileage will vary, with MCPS unfortunately, because it's so decentralized in this area and they give administration a lot of latitude to make the calls, so there is no uniform or standard consequence with getting caught smoking weed at MCPS, which is a shame. |
Anonymous
I'm a parent of color and I don't necessarily want kids smoking pot at school to be arrested but I do want MCPS to stop them from doing that and discipline them with meaningful consequences to deter them from smoking marijuana at school. |
Anonymous
and what would that be? if they suspend them, then the SJ warriors will cry foul, unfair application of consequences. |
Anonymous
| In MCPS they called the Police. They just arrested a kid at Blake HS today for having pot. |
Anonymous
Really? How did you all learn about this considering MCPS insists until they're blue in the face that "student discipline is private." |
Anonymous
This varies school by school and principal by principal. Some principals are averse to involving MCPD for weed. |
Anonymous
| A student was transported to the hospital when he was found high. I think he had to be cleared by a doctor and the parent had to sign off on a safety plan for him return. |