Arlington Has A Drug Problem - From Middle School to High School to Our Community at Large

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I must be missing something then re: FOIA. What does this other issue have to do with drugs and drinking at Yorktown?

None.

My assumption is that the pp who mentioned FOIA was just doing so because he/she knows (or thinks he/she knows) the person posting the other stuff. The FOIA request individual was very invested in a previous issue in APS and boasted about his FOIA request at the time, which involved a non-Yorktown administrator.

Ah, now I know what you're talking about. As I recall, it didn't really implicate the administrator so much as the PTA president (this pp perhaps?), who got caught lying to the parent community and school board. Wasn't there something in the Post about that?

What a lovely community all around. No wonder the kids are getting high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I didn't make the FOIA comment but I understand the reference. The FOIA request was on another APS issue.

I just don't understand how someone can say :

I don't deny that there are drugs in Yorktown or any other high school, and I have no trouble believing kids were selling/using in the bathrooms. But the article hangs its claim that kids are doing drugs in class on the vague assertion of one student. No confirmation from the school that kids have been caught doing this or even corroborating statements from multiple students.

When there is so much evidence to the contrary. Apparently, OD -ing is not enough proof of it occurring.

Nobody OD'd at the middle school. They just took some bad acid they got mail order off the dark web.

[Anonymous]

^ Im not familiar with that one. The FOIA request individual that I recall was digging for info about an administrator. The rumor at the time was that this individual was upset about a policy/curriculum change at the school and went looking for dirt. If I remember correctly that person claimed to be looking for info about the policy change. Coincidentally, the administrator was unceremoniously dismissed from the school, amid allegations of wrongdoing in the middle of the school year.

Aps has more drama than some scripted tv shows

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ Im not familiar with that one. The FOIA request individual that I recall was digging for info about an administrator. The rumor at the time was that this individual was upset about a policy/curriculum change at the school and went looking for dirt. If I remember correctly that person claimed to be looking for info about the policy change. Coincidentally, the administrator was unceremoniously dismissed from the school, amid allegations of wrongdoing in the middle of the school year.

Aps has more drama than some scripted tv shows

Yeah, as I recall, the administrator's dismissal had nothing to do with the FOIA or the issues it concerned (the firing apparently involved an affair with a staffer paid for, in part, with APS money spent on trips and dinners, etc), but some of the PTA types (and their kids) kept trying to blame it on the FOIA guy and waged a very public campaign here and elsewhere to that effect. That wouldn't make a good TV script, though -- it's too cliched.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^ Im not familiar with that one. The FOIA request individual that I recall was digging for info about an administrator. The rumor at the time was that this individual was upset about a policy/curriculum change at the school and went looking for dirt. If I remember correctly that person claimed to be looking for info about the policy change. Coincidentally, the administrator was unceremoniously dismissed from the school, amid allegations of wrongdoing in the middle of the school year.

Aps has more drama than some scripted tv shows

It's not a rumor, the FOIA guy posted about his FOIA request on AEM. It was about block scheduling. I can't speak to the dismissal of the administrator, I just know what I read on AEM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ Im not familiar with that one. The FOIA request individual that I recall was digging for info about an administrator. The rumor at the time was that this individual was upset about a policy/curriculum change at the school and went looking for dirt. If I remember correctly that person claimed to be looking for info about the policy change. Coincidentally, the administrator was unceremoniously dismissed from the school, amid allegations of wrongdoing in the middle of the school year.

Aps has more drama than some scripted tv shows

It's not a rumor, the FOIA guy posted about his FOIA request on AEM. It was about block scheduling. I can't speak to the dismissal of the administrator, I just know what I read on AEM.

The rumor was that he somehow used the FOIA to dig up "dirt," which reveals profound ignorance of how FOIA works. You have to draft those things narrowly and they cannot be used for fishing expeditions. There's no way information about an affair and misuse of APS funds surfaced in a FOIA about block scheduling, a curriculum issue. It was just a bizarre coincidence, I think, that the administrator who was subject of the FOIA got dismissed months later. But that didn't stop some people from attacking him online (and his kids in school). North Arlington people can be so awful, especially when they can hide behind keyboards. At least FOIA guy was transparent about what he was doing.

But none of this has to do with drugs at Yorktown. Except for possibly being a good anecdote to explain why kids in North Arlington feel compelled to abuse substances.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:^ Im not familiar with that one. The FOIA request individual that I recall was digging for info about an administrator. The rumor at the time was that this individual was upset about a policy/curriculum change at the school and went looking for dirt. If I remember correctly that person claimed to be looking for info about the policy change. Coincidentally, the administrator was unceremoniously dismissed from the school, amid allegations of wrongdoing in the middle of the school year.

Aps has more drama than some scripted tv shows

It's not a rumor, the FOIA guy posted about his FOIA request on AEM. It was about block scheduling. I can't speak to the dismissal of the administrator, I just know what I read on AEM.

The part about looking for dirt was the rumor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Nobody OD'd at the middle school. They just took some bad acid they got mail order off the dark web.

Oh, then by all means, carry on.