Middle/high schools with less drug culture?

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I went to an all girls’ catholic school. There was hardly any drug use.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to an all girls’ catholic school. There was hardly any drug use.

Same here.

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In college, likewise, I saw plenty of drinking and smoking, but no drugs.

My kids went to Blair, and to the best of my knowledge, their experience mirrored my own. They're not interested in drugs and neither are their friends.

I just spit out my coffee. Blair has some serious problems with drug dealers, weapons and gangs. I don't doubt that your kids stayed away from drugs but Blair has some major problems and dangerous future criminals.

And in an odd way, this protects UMC and MC students because they are essentially in a parallel but separate world from the gang bangers. The gansters have a business to run, an organization to tend to, and kids to feed. They don't have the time or inclination to take calculus or try out for the lacrosse team.

This. UMC kids have more more to spend on drugs. The dealers want kids who have money, not fairly broke smart middle class kids. My private high school had more drugs floating around than the poorer public high school my cousins went to.

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Anonymous wrote:

In college, likewise, I saw plenty of drinking and smoking, but no drugs.

My kids went to Blair, and to the best of my knowledge, their experience mirrored my own. They're not interested in drugs and neither are their friends.

I just spit out my coffee. Blair has some serious problems with drug dealers, weapons and gangs. I don't doubt that your kids stayed away from drugs but Blair has some major problems and dangerous future criminals.

Nah..Blair has drugs too but the dealers are in the W schools. And the thing is, you can be minding your own business and next thing you know, you are a victim of a drug deal gone bad ( run over by drug dealers cars).

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Anonymous wrote:I can't remember if there's another, similar article, that I can't find, but affluence is a risk factor: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/many-teens-drink-rich-ones-like-kavanaugh-are-more-likely-to-abuse-alcohol/2018/09/28/6bb641aa-c27c-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html?utm_term=.8fda4082a565

All the MS and HS have drugs and alcohol, sure. But some also have a higher proportion of kids able to afford them, fake IDs, etc., so it becomes normalized.

There are a lot of factors. Where I went to HS (not here) it was not definitely NOT affluent although there were a decent amount of kids from families who had enough money to be relatively wealthy for our community. There were drugs EVERYWHERE, enough so that it was normalized. Not just weed and alcohol; even my as a shy nerd who never partied knew people who used acid, ecstacy, cocaine, crack, and heroin (this was before the "opiod epidemic" was a thing)

[Anonymous]

When my DC was in TPMS a few years ago,some kids were throwing ziplock bags with drug in them during PE class. Maybe they are UMC, but my DC could not tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When my DC was in TPMS a few years ago,some kids were throwing ziplock bags with drug in them during PE class. Maybe they are UMC, but my DC could not tell.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't remember if there's another, similar article, that I can't find, but affluence is a risk factor: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/many-teens-drink-rich-ones-like-kavanaugh-are-more-likely-to-abuse-alcohol/2018/09/28/6bb641aa-c27c-11e8-97a5-ab1e46bb3bc7_story.html?utm_term=.8fda4082a565

All the MS and HS have drugs and alcohol, sure. But some also have a higher proportion of kids able to afford them, fake IDs, etc., so it becomes normalized.

There are a lot of factors. Where I went to HS (not here) it was not definitely NOT affluent although there were a decent amount of kids from families who had enough money to be relatively wealthy for our community. There were drugs EVERYWHERE, enough so that it was normalized. Not just weed and alcohol; even my as a shy nerd who never partied knew people who used acid, ecstacy, cocaine, crack, and heroin (this was before the "opiod epidemic" was a thing)

Sure there are a lot of factors, AND affluence is a big one. Or, as you put it, having enough relative wealth to afford drugs in a low COL area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an all girls’ catholic school. There was hardly any drug use.

Same here.

This was also my experience. Our brother school didn't have much drug use either.

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Anonymous wrote:OP parents don't want to admit it, but it is a changed world. THC via vaping is everywhere. That opens the door to more. It's everywhere. Public, private, low income, high income. Maybe certain religious schools are less affected. Need to have open communication with DCs, trust within family, adjust friend circles to stay with those who don't use.

Absolutely this.

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Anonymous wrote:I went to an all girls’ catholic school. There was hardly any drug use.

Same here.

This was also my experience. Our brother school didn't have much drug use either.

Just alcohol.

[Anonymous]

Small schools make it more difficult for a drug culture to persist because news travels fast and wide. I would surmise that the PVAC schools have less of a problem. Not sure, but a guess.

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Anonymous wrote:When my DC was in TPMS a few years ago,some kids were throwing ziplock bags with drug in them during PE class. Maybe they are UMC, but my DC could not tell.

Gosh, "drug dealers" with no business sense...throw away the merchandise!

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Anonymous wrote:Following the topic of a previous post about the hospitalized vapers from Churchill, which MoCo high schools have a reputation for LESS drug use?Also for middle schools? Is Walter Johnson or Wootton better in that regard, or are locals privates like Bullis or St Andrews better?

The ones where students have less money to spend on it.

This. Wootton is pretty bad because kids have access to a lot of money on a regular basis. And there is a large enough parent group who doesn’t care what their kids do as long as the grades are good.

Look for a middle class school. Drugs are everywhere, but access isn’t equal across schools.

Which of the high schools would you consider a middle class school? What about further out like Poolesville?