Drug overdose @school property?

[Anonymous]

It can happen at any school, public or private.

[Anonymous]

I have never hear of this at our private schools, and I feel like my teenagers would have heard something through the grapevine.

Of course it’s possible that it happens anywhere, but more likely in some spots than others. A friend in my midwestern hometown is a high school teacher and they have been hit very hard with various waves of drugs over the years, she says this is a frequent occurrence in her school.

[Anonymous]

I know a MoCo police officer who says the area private schools are loaded with drugs. He also mentioned heavy duty suppressing of charges, publicity, etc.

[Anonymous]

Yes, there is heavy drug use at some local private schools on the high school level, administrators, students, and even parents are aware. However, it’s a really tough thing to prove, and monitor, and prevent.

Please do not think that drugs use is isolated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The answer is yes and it isn't communicated like one would think,. It is and always has been about protecting the brand.

This 👆. Issues are handled quietly, including counseling out family for a variety of reasons.

[Anonymous]

There was that double murder where a student dated an alt-right boy who ended up murdering her family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There was that double murder where a student dated an alt-right boy who ended up murdering her family.

Not remotely relevant to this thread.

[Anonymous]

As a teacher in an all-boys private school that get brought up frequently in this forum- yes it happens often and the school intentionally keeps it quiet.

I've also found that the parents will lie to the community to protect their son's image.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As a teacher in an all-boys private school that get brought up frequently in this forum- yes it happens often and the school intentionally keeps it quiet.

I've also found that the parents will lie to the community to protect their son's image.

Of course they lie. It is not their business. If it affected their child they would know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I know a MoCo police officer who says the area private schools are loaded with drugs. He also mentioned heavy duty suppressing of charges, publicity, etc.

Whatever it takes to make you sleep better at night, knowing that your kid is an assessed pool of drugs, violence, and guns.

[Anonymous]

Yes, I have children at two unrelated privates in DC and it’s happened at both schools… the only way I ever found out was through my kid. The schools do not communicate it at all, citing privacy, but it feels like image management.

And, of course, there are the accidental, off-campus, overdoes at the Big 3 that most parents in DC have heard about through the grapevine. So sad…

[Anonymous]

Yes, they do. Statistically speaking it’s less likely but kids in private schools do drugs, too, and always have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Not at our private schools. They would communicate this. There was a suicide 3 years-ish ago and we got all sorts of communication about that, plus the kids had access to grief counseling.

Not even remotely comparable.

Don’t be naive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Protecting "the brand" and protecting the privacy of the kid may go hand in hand. I understand that some parents think they are "entitled to know," but the kid who went through the overdose probably disagrees.

Here's what you need to know: there are kids recklessly using drugs at your kid's school.

The previous sentence applies to all schools. All of them. Now the question is how do you keep your kid safe? That's hard.

This is why every school should also be thoughtful and persistent on drug/alcohol education - and the school should tell the parents they are doing the education. Our child's HS did not but their MS did. The MS also sent resources to parents as support to the in-school education. This seems like common sense. This sort of persistent education was provided to me in MS, HS, college too.

Did you attend public school?

Private schools will never do this and never have because they benefit from the rumor that their students are magical snowflakes who would never ever.

I went to a middling private many years ago. One administrator chased the kids who used on campus around, a few times they brought dogs through to search. No education or support provided. It often felt like keeping the drugs out took precedence over hiring good faculty. The drug users got a lot of attention but those of us who didn’t were left to our own devices where we would be offered…drugs!

By the time I graduated, I was really good at being propositioned and saying no, but not so good at certain under resourced science classes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a MoCo police officer who says the area private schools are loaded with drugs. He also mentioned heavy duty suppressing of charges, publicity, etc.

Whatever it takes to make you sleep better at night, knowing that your kid is an assessed pool of drugs, violence, and guns.

Nice deflection. You assume you know where PP’s child goes to school because you don’t want to believe what they say is true. The MoCo cop is right. You do your kids no favors sticking your head in the sand.