Does your school do any drug/alcohol abuse prevention teaching? Sidwell doesn't

[Anonymous]

If it is true that Sidwell doesn’t do this, that is very upsetting.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell does have it, or at least to my Sidwell grad it did

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell does have it, or at least to my Sidwell grad it did

New poster here. This is a classic example of where Sidwell's "keep parents at arm's length culture" fails. As a HS parent, we have never gotten anything saying the school covered drug/alcohol abuse programming. So if they have covered it, it's no surprise that some parents don't know about it. I will say that there has been much publicly announced support for the sad event and reports to parents of other types of mental health programming, but nothing about programming for this specific topic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SAES has a mandatory seminar with student and parents plus seminar for just students.

Yes, St. Andrew's does, but it didn't see to be very effective. Our daughter attended a homecoming party and alcohol was present. The parents who's house the kids were in knew and did nothing.

[Anonymous]

Bullis does. We weren't there for MS, but in 10th Grade someone came in and talked to all of the 10th graders

[Anonymous]

I really like the way Gonzaga does their program. Parents and teens participate but you aren’t with your own teen.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell parent of senior here. Sidwell does. They just fold it into mental health programming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAES has a mandatory seminar with student and parents plus seminar for just students.

Yes, St. Andrew's does, but it didn't see to be very effective. Our daughter attended a homecoming party and alcohol was present. The parents who's house the kids were in knew and did nothing.

They themselves are probably drinkers and have raised their kids telling that drinking is okay.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bullis does. We weren't there for MS, but in 10th Grade someone came in and talked to all of the 10th graders

They also have something for 8th grade.

[Anonymous]

Yes, Sidwell explicitly does this in “9th Grade Studies”. DS is 2022 grad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bullis does. We weren't there for MS, but in 10th Grade someone came in and talked to all of the 10th graders

They also have something for 8th grade.

We were so disappointed in that 8th grade program and a "one and done" doesn't count as education. Bullis does not have an effective program for that nor for any type of sex ed/family life program that we could tell.

[Anonymous]

Sidwell 6th grade parent here. I find the communication about these issues to be generally good. We always know when sex ed is on the horizon, and I'm guessing the same will be true when the drugs and alcohol stuff comes up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell 6th grade parent here. I find the communication about these issues to be generally good. We always know when sex ed is on the horizon, and I'm guessing the same will be true when the drugs and alcohol stuff comes up.

FYI - you'll get none of that when once you hit the HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Sidwell 6th grade parent here. I find the communication about these issues to be generally good. We always know when sex ed is on the horizon, and I'm guessing the same will be true when the drugs and alcohol stuff comes up.

FYI - you'll get none of that when once you hit the HS.

I mean the communication.....not sure about the programming because the lack of communication (and a kid that is historically and chronically a non-sharer).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:SAES has a mandatory seminar with student and parents plus seminar for just students.

Yes, St. Andrew's does, but it didn't see to be very effective. Our daughter attended a homecoming party and alcohol was present. The parents who's house the kids were in knew and did nothing.

This is not the school's fault.