APS overdose at Wakefield

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what does it say? i can't get access.

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Referencing a victim. Possibly victim had been in contact with the suspect electronically earlier in the day.

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Something about a masked teenage intruder with a weapon.

There is also a victim.

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12:55:11 is more descriptive. Keep listening. I'm not through yet...sounds like the assailant was still possibly inside the school and they were/are trying to figure out how to flush him out.

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Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

Not when they drive drunk

Is this a reference to the student who killed the W-L student by DUI? (I'm not using names because I don't want this to be searchable)

If so, you're horrible.

There have been a few over the recent years.

The driver of that car was not a Yorktown kid.

[Anonymous]

Someone started a fresh thread about the Feb 2nd lockdown. Suggest moving this discussion over there: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1110301.page

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Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

Not when they drive drunk

Is this a reference to the student who killed the W-L student by DUI? (I'm not using names because I don't want this to be searchable)

If so, you're horrible.

There have been a few over the recent years.

The driver of that car was not a Yorktown kid.

Using "Yorktown parent" as shorthand for "wealthy North Arlington parent" -- unless there are a lot of south Arlington kids driving their own SUVs around Rock Spring late at night

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Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

Not when they drive drunk

Is this a reference to the student who killed the W-L student by DUI? (I'm not using names because I don't want this to be searchable)

If so, you're horrible.

There have been a few over the recent years.

The driver of that car was not a Yorktown kid.

Using "Yorktown parent" as shorthand for "wealthy North Arlington parent" -- unless there are a lot of south Arlington kids driving their own SUVs around Rock Spring late at night

The driver wasn’t an APS kid. Not sure why you feel comfortable a) spreading misinformation and b) bringing up this tragic incident when this was about a Wakefield kid ODing

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Anonymous wrote:Education! One pill can kill. Don’t take random pills, ever. It’s not cool. It’s stupid and the pills are never what you think they are. There were huge public campaigns around drugs in decades past, it’s time to bring them back.

+1. This is the conversation I had with my teen yesterday. It just isn't worth it because the odds are not good. Don't ever take a pill from anyone, even your best friend offering you Adderall to stay up studying. You just can't be 100% sure what's in it and you could literally die the very first time you pop a pill that isn't yours.

This isn't like the days of old when campaigns were trying to make it sound like occasional marijuana use would lead you to being a cocaine addict. I just listened to a podcast this morning that said something like 40% of non-prescription pills have fentanyl. That's seriously scary.

I’m glad you had that conversation (I need to have it again with my tween), and agreed - random pill means any pill that isn’t in a prescription bottle with your own name on it or from a sealed package that you bought in the pharmacy. The end. There were always dealers trying to push random pills - and this risk was always there - I remember several teens getting cardiac arrhythmias from pills laced with amphetamines - now we have the extremely potent fentanyl laced pills. Not worth it, not cool. That message is the truth and it needs to be pushed out there.

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Anonymous wrote:No one said SROs were the only solution, but should be *part* of the solution. Nothing will stop all drug issues at school, but having an SRO on site could help stop the pipeline or, at least, make kids think twice and make healthier decisions.

As someone who works at a school with SROs: it does none of those things. They just know not to do their thing in the bathrooms closest to the SRO office.

And some kids aren’t doing drugs bc SRos are there. Waiting to get “all” won’t help. Let’s at least get to deterring “some”.

This is 0% true. The SROs are not in the bathroom. The kids don’t even know who the SRO is. People like you are absolutely clueless about reality. Rather than focus on the real issue you just want to spend imaginary money to fill the school with more people who can’t fix the problem themselves. Delusional.

Um, no. I’m a teacher, and I want them back. I think the kids know that the guy in the police uniform is the SRO. They can’t solve everything, but I think it scares some of them enough not to do stupid things. That’s good enough for me.

Exactly. The presence made a noticeable difference.

No it didn’t. I would love to know where that teacher Pp teaches where he thinks the SRO is some visible superhero deterrent. Probably an elementary school. These kids in high school could give a sh*t about the SRO

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I think we need SROs back in every school now.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we need SROs back in every school now.

They’re already there ! Some people seem to think we need more but every school has an SRO. They don’t prevent crime anymore than outside police do.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we need SROs back in every school now.

Dare you to say that on AEM

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Anonymous wrote:Using "Yorktown parent" as shorthand for "wealthy North Arlington parent" -- unless there are a lot of south Arlington kids driving their own SUVs around Rock Spring late at night

Anonymous wrote: The driver wasn’t an APS kid. Not sure why you feel comfortable a) spreading misinformation and b) bringing up this tragic incident when this was about a Wakefield kid ODing

It was in direct response to this

Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we need SROs back in every school now.

They’re already there ! Some people seem to think we need more but every school has an SRO. They don’t prevent crime anymore than outside police do.

What do you mean? APS removed all SROs in 2021. There are none in any APS schools now.