B-CC Student Newspaper Blows the Lid Off of Drug Use and Distribution in MCPS High Schools

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Nah, RM may have some but it is not in the same league as BCC and Churchill, not even close. Sorry

Please don’t act like you know something that you can’t possibly know. No parent (or kid, for that matter) has a clear handle on the number of dealers in any school. These dealers aren’t exactly identifying themselves openly.

No parent or kid needs to know the number of dealers, at a school, county or state. This is a matter for the police and why we have law enforcement. It is not an MCPS issue. Their charter is to educate kids not enforced laws. This bizarre thinking is like saying because kids spend time at department store it should be charged with drug enforcement.

This is an mcps, law enforcement and parent issue. Everyone needs to work together.

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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“One B-CC student who sells nicotine as well as THC (or marijuana) products to numerous students at B-CC admits, “When I get it from another trapper [slang for a dealer] then it’s from their supplier, which is likely homemade,” adding “you really don’t know what is in it since it’s not r
This says it all right here. These kids are just wannabe thugs and are emulating pop culture. Imagine a Bethesda kid talking about Trap culture.[/quote]

Many of the kids at bcc come from silver spring. Lytonsville. Lots of subsidized housing with a lot of food insecurity. Something like 20% of BCC’s student body is FARMs. Not sure if you’ve spend much time in that area but there are true thugs who live there and subsequently attend BCC not just wannabe ones.[/quote]

Stop it with your racist blame shifting of drug dealing to Silver Spring and minority kids.

I am a BCC parent and my kids told me one of the school pot dealers was a kid from his spirits team who lived with his parents in the Town of Chevy Chase.

I am so freaking tired of people thinking the rich white kids can do no wrong at BCC. [/quote]You are so right. [b]MCPS needs to look into these kids who know so much about the in-school drug dealers and they will find their answers. This exposé was simply an autobiography of the priviledged kids.[/b][/quote]

I am PP. If by the bold you mean that MCPS should lean on the student journalists who wrote the article for The Tattler, in order to get them to divulge their sources, you should know that student journalists are protected by the First Amendment, just like all US citizens. Any student journalists who are approached or pressured by the administration to divulge information should contact the ACLU for representation. BCC administrators should know that attempts by the prior principal (not Mooney) to pressure Tattler journalists to reveal info or stop publishing info were unsuccessful.

If by autobiography, you are implying that the Tattler journalists are the ones selling drugs, then shame on you.

[Anonymous]

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Nah, RM may have some but it is not in the same league as BCC and Churchill, not even close. Sorry

Please don’t act like you know something that you can’t possibly know. No parent (or kid, for that matter) has a clear handle on the number of dealers in any school. These dealers aren’t exactly identifying themselves openly.

The people who would know the best are SROs, but they're no longer around.

Since that's never helped any place else, I doubt it would do any good here.

Interestingly, drug use in schools has gone up since SROs were eliminated.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo 360 (formerly Bethesda Magazine) followed up on the Tattler's reporting: https://moco360.media/2023/02/04/vaping-marij...oom-culture-at-b-cc/

Not much new but a lot of vague, noncommittal promises language from MCPS. A complete lack of leadership.

MCPS plans to reevaluate its security practices and potentially issue “systemwide improvements” to address bathroom safety concerns, spokesperson Jessica Baxter wrote to MoCo360.

So after a student was SHOT in a bathroom at Magruder, students passed out in bathrooms at B-CC, and the majority of MCPS high schools are suffering from substance abuse issues in bathrooms, MCPS leadership is only going to "potentially" issue "systemwide improvements"? This is not an urgent matter that requires rapid response and attention? Unreal.

They will spend millions for a year long study to come up with what ever recommendations they want it skewed to which will be do nothing.

They and MoCo were sued by the Magruder victim's parents. They'll spend more time and money fighting that rather than making helpful changes.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:BCC students enter bathrooms to see large groups of girls vaping?

My son is a senior at WJ, and has never entered a bathroom and seen someone vaping or smelled weed. Is it because boys don't use bathrooms for this? Is just particular bathrooms? I'm sure WJ has a drug problem too...

It is hard for me to believe that kids at WJ are not vaping or smoking weed.
I teach at a HS in SS and you can smell pot regularly in the hallways. Vaping in the bathrooms is also very common unfortunately.

I do not understand why the Principal can’t shut this stuff down.

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In all honesty, I am very impressed MoCo has student newspapers. They always have. It's not the same standard across the river in FCPS

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Anonymous wrote:Vaping in the bathroom is common in MS as well…

People smoked in the bathrooms when I was in high school. Of course, at the time, the teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, too. They didn't vape, because there was no such thing as vaping. They didn't OD on fentanyl, because you could only get fentanyl in hospitals. And they didn't shoot each other (mostly), even though a lot of families actually had guns for hunting, because the US was not yet awash in guns owned by people for the purpose of protecting themselves from people with guns.

Gen X represent!!

This was going on in MCPS schools for many many years. Kids smoked in specific areas in BCC. Same with drug and alcohol use. This isn't specific to BCC either and it's at every school, public and private in this country and every other country.

It may have not been fentanyl but there were plenty of other drugs.

The difference is social media and things like the BCC newspaper allowing those articles that never would have been allowed 20+ years ago.

So the kids who honestly and accurately telling the truth about the scope and nature of the problem are the issue? You are morally bankrupt.

How is that morally bankrupt? Its good they are reporting it but the reality is the same issues were in the schools many years ago and people pretending this is a new issue have their heads in the sand.

Another student ODed today and had to be revived with Narcan. This happened during QO lunch at the McDonald's across the street.
I'm Gen x, we had crack but I don't remember anyone ODing during school hours. These kids are under a whole different ball.game.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:And the Op-Ed is a slam dunk on MCPS administration: https://bcctattler.org/2018/opinion/what-weve...lure-to-communicate/

More than just upsetting PTSA members, poor administrative communication has seriously imperiled the most vulnerable students.

These cases are extreme examples, but they demonstrate an institutional, rather than individual, problem. County school boards need to release administrative training manuals to public scrutiny so parents and students can hold administrations accountable. The B-CC administration needs to drop its policy of “(don’t) do first, apologize later”. Until then, poor communication will continue to open students to harm and close parents off from the immediate safety of their children.

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABES!

MCPS and BOE, your time is up! It's time to clean house and get it together. Students and parents are fed up.

Parents have fake outrage or they’d do something about their kids drug use. What can mcps do? Let’s be real. They will not hire more security, give detentions and suspend kids so they are powerless.

Yes, it's MCPS fault. They were supposed to raise my kid!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Nah, RM may have some but it is not in the same league as BCC and Churchill, not even close. Sorry

Please don’t act like you know something that you can’t possibly know. No parent (or kid, for that matter) has a clear handle on the number of dealers in any school. These dealers aren’t exactly identifying themselves openly.

The people who would know the best are SROs, but they're no longer around.

Since that's never helped any place else, I doubt it would do any good here.

Interestingly, drug use in schools has gone up since SROs were eliminated.

I thought they said it went down at the BOE meeting earlier this week.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Nah, RM may have some but it is not in the same league as BCC and Churchill, not even close. Sorry

Please don’t act like you know something that you can’t possibly know. No parent (or kid, for that matter) has a clear handle on the number of dealers in any school. These dealers aren’t exactly identifying themselves openly.

The people who would know the best are SROs, but they're no longer around.

Since that's never helped any place else, I doubt it would do any good here.

Interestingly, drug use in schools has gone up since SROs were eliminated.

I thought they said it went down at the BOE meeting earlier this week.

absolutely not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Vaping in the bathroom is common in MS as well…

People smoked in the bathrooms when I was in high school. Of course, at the time, the teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, too. They didn't vape, because there was no such thing as vaping. They didn't OD on fentanyl, because you could only get fentanyl in hospitals. And they didn't shoot each other (mostly), even though a lot of families actually had guns for hunting, because the US was not yet awash in guns owned by people for the purpose of protecting themselves from people with guns.

Gen X represent!!

This was going on in MCPS schools for many many years. Kids smoked in specific areas in BCC. Same with drug and alcohol use. This isn't specific to BCC either and it's at every school, public and private in this country and every other country.

It may have not been fentanyl but there were plenty of other drugs.

The difference is social media and things like the BCC newspaper allowing those articles that never would have been allowed 20+ years ago.

So the kids who honestly and accurately telling the truth about the scope and nature of the problem are the issue? You are morally bankrupt.

How is that morally bankrupt? Its good they are reporting it but the reality is the same issues were in the schools many years ago and people pretending this is a new issue have their heads in the sand.

Another student ODed today and had to be revived with Narcan. This happened during QO lunch at the McDonald's across the street.
I'm Gen x, we had crack but I don't remember anyone ODing during school hours. These kids are under a whole different ball.game.

I was under the impression students weren't allowed in this McDonalds anymore but I guess not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Vaping in the bathroom is common in MS as well…

People smoked in the bathrooms when I was in high school. Of course, at the time, the teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, too. They didn't vape, because there was no such thing as vaping. They didn't OD on fentanyl, because you could only get fentanyl in hospitals. And they didn't shoot each other (mostly), even though a lot of families actually had guns for hunting, because the US was not yet awash in guns owned by people for the purpose of protecting themselves from people with guns.

Gen X represent!!

This was going on in MCPS schools for many many years. Kids smoked in specific areas in BCC. Same with drug and alcohol use. This isn't specific to BCC either and it's at every school, public and private in this country and every other country.

It may have not been fentanyl but there were plenty of other drugs.

The difference is social media and things like the BCC newspaper allowing those articles that never would have been allowed 20+ years ago.

So the kids who honestly and accurately telling the truth about the scope and nature of the problem are the issue? You are morally bankrupt.

How is that morally bankrupt? Its good they are reporting it but the reality is the same issues were in the schools many years ago and people pretending this is a new issue have their heads in the sand.

Another student ODed today and had to be revived with Narcan. This happened during QO lunch at the McDonald's across the street.
I'm Gen x, we had crack but I don't remember anyone ODing during school hours. These kids are under a whole different ball.game.

Yeah, it is definitely worse now. Not sure if it’s the same in every county, but it’s terrible here in MCPS.

It’s become a weekly issue at one school or another.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaping in the bathroom is common in MS as well…

People smoked in the bathrooms when I was in high school. Of course, at the time, the teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, too. They didn't vape, because there was no such thing as vaping. They didn't OD on fentanyl, because you could only get fentanyl in hospitals. And they didn't shoot each other (mostly), even though a lot of families actually had guns for hunting, because the US was not yet awash in guns owned by people for the purpose of protecting themselves from people with guns.

Gen X represent!!

This was going on in MCPS schools for many many years. Kids smoked in specific areas in BCC. Same with drug and alcohol use. This isn't specific to BCC either and it's at every school, public and private in this country and every other country.

It may have not been fentanyl but there were plenty of other drugs.

The difference is social media and things like the BCC newspaper allowing those articles that never would have been allowed 20+ years ago.

So the kids who honestly and accurately telling the truth about the scope and nature of the problem are the issue? You are morally bankrupt.

How is that morally bankrupt? Its good they are reporting it but the reality is the same issues were in the schools many years ago and people pretending this is a new issue have their heads in the sand.

Another student ODed today and had to be revived with Narcan. This happened during QO lunch at the McDonald's across the street.
I'm Gen x, we had crack but I don't remember anyone ODing during school hours. These kids are under a whole different ball.game.

I was under the impression students weren't allowed in this McDonalds anymore but I guess not.

Impossible to enforce. How would that even work?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaping in the bathroom is common in MS as well…

People smoked in the bathrooms when I was in high school. Of course, at the time, the teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, too. They didn't vape, because there was no such thing as vaping. They didn't OD on fentanyl, because you could only get fentanyl in hospitals. And they didn't shoot each other (mostly), even though a lot of families actually had guns for hunting, because the US was not yet awash in guns owned by people for the purpose of protecting themselves from people with guns.

Gen X represent!!

This was going on in MCPS schools for many many years. Kids smoked in specific areas in BCC. Same with drug and alcohol use. This isn't specific to BCC either and it's at every school, public and private in this country and every other country.

It may have not been fentanyl but there were plenty of other drugs.

The difference is social media and things like the BCC newspaper allowing those articles that never would have been allowed 20+ years ago.

So the kids who honestly and accurately telling the truth about the scope and nature of the problem are the issue? You are morally bankrupt.

How is that morally bankrupt? Its good they are reporting it but the reality is the same issues were in the schools many years ago and people pretending this is a new issue have their heads in the sand.

Another student ODed today and had to be revived with Narcan. This happened during QO lunch at the McDonald's across the street.
I'm Gen x, we had crack but I don't remember anyone ODing during school hours. These kids are under a whole different ball.game.

I was under the impression students weren't allowed in this McDonalds anymore but I guess not.

Impossible to enforce. How would that even work?

Does QO have open lunch? I know one of the problems at our school is that despite it not being open lunch, the security guards are not enforcing or stopping students from leaving the building during lunch hour.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Vaping in the bathroom is common in MS as well…

People smoked in the bathrooms when I was in high school. Of course, at the time, the teachers smoked in the teacher's lounge, too. They didn't vape, because there was no such thing as vaping. They didn't OD on fentanyl, because you could only get fentanyl in hospitals. And they didn't shoot each other (mostly), even though a lot of families actually had guns for hunting, because the US was not yet awash in guns owned by people for the purpose of protecting themselves from people with guns.

Gen X represent!!

This was going on in MCPS schools for many many years. Kids smoked in specific areas in BCC. Same with drug and alcohol use. This isn't specific to BCC either and it's at every school, public and private in this country and every other country.

It may have not been fentanyl but there were plenty of other drugs.

The difference is social media and things like the BCC newspaper allowing those articles that never would have been allowed 20+ years ago.

So the kids who honestly and accurately telling the truth about the scope and nature of the problem are the issue? You are morally bankrupt.

How is that morally bankrupt? Its good they are reporting it but the reality is the same issues were in the schools many years ago and people pretending this is a new issue have their heads in the sand.

Another student ODed today and had to be revived with Narcan. This happened during QO lunch at the McDonald's across the street.
I'm Gen x, we had crack but I don't remember anyone ODing during school hours. These kids are under a whole different ball.game.

Yeah, it is definitely worse now. Not sure if it’s the same in every county, but it’s terrible here in MCPS.

It’s become a weekly issue at one school or another.

It's national. The drugs are not made in the same way. They can be laced wit fentanyl and veterinary tranquilizer, either of which can be lethal. Fentanyl is lethal in minuscule amounts. One laced pill and you're dead.
Users are engaging in Russian roulette. Dealers are playing with people's lives. The latter should definitely face charges.