Drugs

[Anonymous]

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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

wow. your overreaction makes you sound psycho. Because the school day at Field ends at 2:45 pm and doesn't start until 9am which is a FULL HOUR after any other school starts, I contend sports are part of the school day. The 20% figure is incorrect but even if it were true what Field does is give a few kids a full ride and then the rest of the classes are filled with the ultra rich. Prove to me that this isn't the case. If you think Field has the kind of homework a school like Sidwell, GDS or even Burke does then you definitely do not have experience with both types of schools.

[Anonymous]

A number of trolls are afoot so let me try a fact-based response to the original question. I am a member of the Parents Council of Washington which is comprised of representatives of all the area's independent schools. There are no system-wide data on drug use at the area independent schools. Anecdotally, most of the high schools have use issues and concerns related to drugs and alcohol. It is the reality of our times, exacerbated by our being high-expectations parents in an overachieving town.

During the 2014-15 school-year, several schools stepped up their attention to alcohol and drug use, including GDS (sorry to whoever likes to flame GDS), which they shared at a PCW meeting that spring and, I recall, posting on their website.

The consistent message across the community is parent engagement and vigilance. It's up to us to equip our children with the best judgement possible and with the ability to make responsible choices. They begin and end their day with us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A number of trolls are afoot so let me try a fact-based response to the original question. I am a member of the Parents Council of Washington which is comprised of representatives of all the area's independent schools. There are no system-wide data on drug use at the area independent schools. Anecdotally, most of the high schools have use issues and concerns related to drugs and alcohol. It is the reality of our times, exacerbated by our being high-expectations parents in an overachieving town.

During the 2014-15 school-year, several schools stepped up their attention to alcohol and drug use, including GDS (sorry to whoever likes to flame GDS), which they shared at a PCW meeting that spring and, I recall, posting on their website.

The consistent message across the community is parent engagement and vigilance. It's up to us to equip our children with the best judgement possible and with the ability to make responsible choices. They begin and end their day with us.

Thank you for your efforts on the Parents Council. As the parent of a sophomore at a local DC area private, I am disturbed at what is going on and how things have seemingly changed for the worse over the last several decades. Today the drinking age is 21, there is professed "zero tolerance" by most schools, and parents are more "concerned" and involved. But instead of ubiquitous beer drinking and some pot smoking as there was in the old days, what's prevalent is hard alcohol binging, smoking more potent pot, vaping - including vaping THC, and a market in Rx drugs like anxiolytics and adderrall. Teenagers will be teenagers but I would much rather have kid drink a couple of beers at a keg party than gulp vodka from a water bottle and vape.

[Anonymous]

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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.

You mean like the rumor you just spread about your neighbors at Wilson?

[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.

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.

You mean like the rumor you just spread about your neighbors at Wilson?

Why don’t you go ask the kids where they go and settle the question that way? My kid knows these kids and has no reason to spread rumors. As I said, this is not about who vapes but where.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

wow. your overreaction makes you sound psycho. Because the school day at Field ends at 2:45 pm and doesn't start until 9am which is a FULL HOUR after any other school starts, I contend sports are part of the school day. The 20% figure is incorrect but even if it were true what Field does is give a few kids a full ride and then the rest of the classes are filled with the ultra rich. Prove to me that this isn't the case. If you think Field has the kind of homework a school like Sidwell, GDS or even Burke does then you definitely do not have experience with both types of schools.

NP - you need to stop drinking so early in the day. you have a unique relationship with truth and facts. so you hate Field, ok. are you also the GDS hater too? by the way, I have an older kid at Field and a younger one at Potomac and the homework at the equivalent grade has been comparable. Also have a nephew at STA. So much more $$ at Potomac and STA.

[Anonymous]

Watch the Netflix documentary "Big Vape." It is a very disturbing history on the rise of e-cigarettes. Particularly JUUL and their marketing tactics of appealing to younger generations via a series of social media ads that depict vaping as glamorous and cool. There are interviews with the founders of JUUL, both of whom attended Stanford University. As a parent, I found it to be highly educational. There are also interviews with lots of high school students describing how they got hooked and just how pervasive and "normal" it is in high schools.