What is this illness at Wilson?

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Anonymous wrote:What does the school do about drug dealers among its student body? Is there a policy on this?

My high school kid at WallsHS says that from Day 1 was approached by fellow students wanting to sell him drugs.

Of course all high schools face this issue. But what do the adults in the building DO about it? Do they have any responsibility here?

Can you tell us more about the drug situation at Walls? How widespread is it?

Everyone knows that there's a lot of weed at Walls. Not as many harder drugs as at Wilson. News flash, there are students doing drugs in every high school in the city, public and private.

First of all I don’t even know what Walls is. What is it? Never heard of it so I’m starting to see we are in completely different worlds when we’re talking about privates. Secondly, no they’re not doing drugs during the school day at top privates when they should be in class. It’s just not happening during the day at school. Sorry. There are hundreds of privates and maybe some of the less competitive ones I am not familiar with have kids doing drugs at schools. I don’t know but I can tell you at the top privates, kids are not doing drugs during the day on campus. The schools are too small and they have teachers and security all over the place and the bathrooms are monitored and the classes are small and if you cut class you get suspended. They have serious consequences. It’s just not happening. You only have like two minutes between classes to get to the next place and the classes are so small you can’t just skip a class and not have a go unnoticed. Have you ever stepped foot in any of the top private schools? Many of the individual classes only have 15 or 16 kids in them. Participation is required as part of your grade so teachers would be very aware if someone was on drugs.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/teens-who-attend-private-schools-higher-risk-drug-and-alcohol-abuse-adults-418482
https://www.balboahorizons.com/whos-doing-drugs-in-school-today/
https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2016/our-independent-school-drinking-problem/
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/22/survey-17-of-high-schoolers-drink-smoke-use-drugs-during-school-day/

I am picturing the Naive poster right now like this:

I have a kid in Wilson and one in private. Neither one is into the drug scene at either -- yes, both have them. Wilson has its own challenges with safety but my child has never felt unsafe at school. We read about it or hear about the safety issues rather than see them first hand. My private kid has had to deal with other issues like stealing and clique behavior. Both schools are infested with juuling and juuling IN class. I have found parents at both schools very disappointing with their approach to pot, though only at Wilson do I know parents who smoke pot with their kids which makes me . I will say that the private seems to come down harder on kids. I have found Wilson to not send a clear message regularly about unacceptable behaviors. Plus the going to school but not class is a big problem at Wilson, not at the private.

That is my take. No school is perfect but both my kids are happy where they are.

Doesn’t sound like a top private to me. There are hundreds of privates In this area so I have no doubt that there are issues that some of those privates But I have never heard of a safety issue or fistfight at the very top privates.

OMG the stuff that people post on here - so fights only happen at less elite privates! If you've read this thread multiple posts on here from Wilson parents attest that they are not concerned about their kids safety - the concerns expressed on this thread about safety at Wilson, as best as I can tell, are entirely from private school parents who can't seem to drive through Tenleytown without seeing a person of color on a streetcorner and then shatting on themselves in their imported SUV driving their sheltered kids home to Bethesda/Chevy Chase.

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So FRUSTRATING to read all of these unrelated posts to ‘illness at Wilson’.incommentrd earlier as a Wikson parent how infuriating it is to have murky explanations from admin about a seriously scary and unusual call for 6-8
Students to be ambulanced for tainted drugs. This has NOTHING TO DO WITH private v public, are any high schools immune etc. of COURSE no HS is immune to drugs!! However in this case the premier, zero tolerance DC public HS will not provide any facts.

Posters who keep saying, gee, why can’t u have that frank chat with yr own kid? Shut UP! We all do, but even our kids have misinformation which is dangerous —‘bad’ Xanax? Is there a ‘good’ Xanax for teens? Clearly this was poison shit drugs sold on campus by a kid and it went bad. Why are you lawyered up parents or admin jumping in with petty assertions we only want to gossip? Puh-LEEZE. I dint give a shit for names, I give a shit we are all on the same page with the FACTS. The drug. Where. When. Why so many kids. Symptoms. Disciplinary action taken.

So everyone who wants to keep this in the dark just shut the F up. Those who want some day light, keep on it. I have written DCPS and inquired to Wikson. Everyone tight lipped. Since when?

Finally, sorry folks, if this were a black kid with an unloaded gun at entry, it would be big bad news.

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Anonymous wrote:What does the school do about drug dealers among its student body? Is there a policy on this?

My high school kid at WallsHS says that from Day 1 was approached by fellow students wanting to sell him drugs.

Of course all high schools face this issue. But what do the adults in the building DO about it? Do they have any responsibility here?

Can you tell us more about the drug situation at Walls? How widespread is it?

Everyone knows that there's a lot of weed at Walls. Not as many harder drugs as at Wilson. News flash, there are students doing drugs in every high school in the city, public and private.

First of all I don’t even know what Walls is. What is it? Never heard of it so I’m starting to see we are in completely different worlds when we’re talking about privates. Secondly, no they’re not doing drugs during the school day at top privates when they should be in class. It’s just not happening during the day at school. Sorry. There are hundreds of privates and maybe some of the less competitive ones I am not familiar with have kids doing drugs at schools. I don’t know but I can tell you at the top privates, kids are not doing drugs during the day on campus. The schools are too small and they have teachers and security all over the place and the bathrooms are monitored and the classes are small and if you cut class you get suspended. They have serious consequences. It’s just not happening. You only have like two minutes between classes to get to the next place and the classes are so small you can’t just skip a class and not have a go unnoticed. Have you ever stepped foot in any of the top private schools? Many of the individual classes only have 15 or 16 kids in them. Participation is required as part of your grade so teachers would be very aware if someone was on drugs.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/teens-who-attend-private-schools-higher-risk-drug-and-alcohol-abuse-adults-418482
https://www.balboahorizons.com/whos-doing-drugs-in-school-today/
https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2016/our-independent-school-drinking-problem/
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/22/survey-17-of-high-schoolers-drink-smoke-use-drugs-during-school-day/

I am picturing the Naive poster right now like this:

I have a kid in Wilson and one in private. Neither one is into the drug scene at either -- yes, both have them. Wilson has its own challenges with safety but my child has never felt unsafe at school. We read about it or hear about the safety issues rather than see them first hand. My private kid has had to deal with other issues like stealing and clique behavior. Both schools are infested with juuling and juuling IN class. I have found parents at both schools very disappointing with their approach to pot, though only at Wilson do I know parents who smoke pot with their kids which makes me . I will say that the private seems to come down harder on kids. I have found Wilson to not send a clear message regularly about unacceptable behaviors. Plus the going to school but not class is a big problem at Wilson, not at the private.

That is my take. No school is perfect but both my kids are happy where they are.

Doesn’t sound like a top private to me. There are hundreds of privates In this area so I have no doubt that there are issues that some of those privates But I have never heard of a safety issue or fistfight at the very top privates.

OMG the stuff that people post on here - so fights only happen at less elite privates! If you've read this thread multiple posts on here from Wilson parents attest that they are not concerned about their kids safety - the concerns expressed on this thread about safety at Wilson, as best as I can tell, are entirely from private school parents who can't seem to drive through Tenleytown without seeing a person of color on a streetcorner and then shatting on themselves in their imported SUV driving their sheltered kids home to Bethesda/Chevy Chase.

I largely agree with you, but, as a Wilson parent, I think some of the post defending the school are a bit Pollyanna-ish. One poster said something like it's just youthful exuberance on display after school. It is more than that and the school does have some real issues that you wouldn't find at a private or most suburban schools. That doesn't mean those schools don't have their own issues of course, but people can acknowledge problems at Wilson without being racist pearl clutchers.

I understand there is an incentive to defend the school when unreasonably attacked, but some of the defenses are almost as liberal with the truth as the attacks themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does the school do about drug dealers among its student body? Is there a policy on this?

My high school kid at WallsHS says that from Day 1 was approached by fellow students wanting to sell him drugs.

Of course all high schools face this issue. But what do the adults in the building DO about it? Do they have any responsibility here?

Can you tell us more about the drug situation at Walls? How widespread is it?

Everyone knows that there's a lot of weed at Walls. Not as many harder drugs as at Wilson. News flash, there are students doing drugs in every high school in the city, public and private.

First of all I don’t even know what Walls is. What is it? Never heard of it so I’m starting to see we are in completely different worlds when we’re talking about privates. Secondly, no they’re not doing drugs during the school day at top privates when they should be in class. It’s just not happening during the day at school. Sorry. There are hundreds of privates and maybe some of the less competitive ones I am not familiar with have kids doing drugs at schools. I don’t know but I can tell you at the top privates, kids are not doing drugs during the day on campus. The schools are too small and they have teachers and security all over the place and the bathrooms are monitored and the classes are small and if you cut class you get suspended. They have serious consequences. It’s just not happening. You only have like two minutes between classes to get to the next place and the classes are so small you can’t just skip a class and not have a go unnoticed. Have you ever stepped foot in any of the top private schools? Many of the individual classes only have 15 or 16 kids in them. Participation is required as part of your grade so teachers would be very aware if someone was on drugs.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/teens-who-attend-private-schools-higher-risk-drug-and-alcohol-abuse-adults-418482
https://www.balboahorizons.com/whos-doing-drugs-in-school-today/
https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2016/our-independent-school-drinking-problem/
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/22/survey-17-of-high-schoolers-drink-smoke-use-drugs-during-school-day/

I am picturing the Naive poster right now like this:

I have a kid in Wilson and one in private. Neither one is into the drug scene at either -- yes, both have them. Wilson has its own challenges with safety but my child has never felt unsafe at school. We read about it or hear about the safety issues rather than see them first hand. My private kid has had to deal with other issues like stealing and clique behavior. Both schools are infested with juuling and juuling IN class. I have found parents at both schools very disappointing with their approach to pot, though only at Wilson do I know parents who smoke pot with their kids which makes me . I will say that the private seems to come down harder on kids. I have found Wilson to not send a clear message regularly about unacceptable behaviors. Plus the going to school but not class is a big problem at Wilson, not at the private.

That is my take. No school is perfect but both my kids are happy where they are.

Doesn’t sound like a top private to me. There are hundreds of privates In this area so I have no doubt that there are issues that some of those privates But I have never heard of a safety issue or fistfight at the very top privates.

Big 3 in DC (or here on DCUM) and if you don't know what a "safety" issue is -- thinking it is fist fighting? You don't read the papers. It rhymes with "text" assault but has less letters in the first word.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What does the school do about drug dealers among its student body? Is there a policy on this?

My high school kid at WallsHS says that from Day 1 was approached by fellow students wanting to sell him drugs.

Of course all high schools face this issue. But what do the adults in the building DO about it? Do they have any responsibility here?

Can you tell us more about the drug situation at Walls? How widespread is it?

Everyone knows that there's a lot of weed at Walls. Not as many harder drugs as at Wilson. News flash, there are students doing drugs in every high school in the city, public and private.

First of all I don’t even know what Walls is. What is it? Never heard of it so I’m starting to see we are in completely different worlds when we’re talking about privates. Secondly, no they’re not doing drugs during the school day at top privates when they should be in class. It’s just not happening during the day at school. Sorry. There are hundreds of privates and maybe some of the less competitive ones I am not familiar with have kids doing drugs at schools. I don’t know but I can tell you at the top privates, kids are not doing drugs during the day on campus. The schools are too small and they have teachers and security all over the place and the bathrooms are monitored and the classes are small and if you cut class you get suspended. They have serious consequences. It’s just not happening. You only have like two minutes between classes to get to the next place and the classes are so small you can’t just skip a class and not have a go unnoticed. Have you ever stepped foot in any of the top private schools? Many of the individual classes only have 15 or 16 kids in them. Participation is required as part of your grade so teachers would be very aware if someone was on drugs.

https://www.medicaldaily.com/teens-who-attend-private-schools-higher-risk-drug-and-alcohol-abuse-adults-418482
https://www.balboahorizons.com/whos-doing-drugs-in-school-today/
https://www.nais.org/magazine/independent-school/spring-2016/our-independent-school-drinking-problem/
http://schoolsofthought.blogs.cnn.com/2012/08/22/survey-17-of-high-schoolers-drink-smoke-use-drugs-during-school-day/

I am picturing the Naive poster right now like this:

I have a kid in Wilson and one in private. Neither one is into the drug scene at either -- yes, both have them. Wilson has its own challenges with safety but my child has never felt unsafe at school. We read about it or hear about the safety issues rather than see them first hand. My private kid has had to deal with other issues like stealing and clique behavior. Both schools are infested with juuling and juuling IN class. I have found parents at both schools very disappointing with their approach to pot, though only at Wilson do I know parents who smoke pot with their kids which makes me . I will say that the private seems to come down harder on kids. I have found Wilson to not send a clear message regularly about unacceptable behaviors. Plus the going to school but not class is a big problem at Wilson, not at the private.

That is my take. No school is perfect but both my kids are happy where they are.

Doesn’t sound like a top private to me. There are hundreds of privates In this area so I have no doubt that there are issues that some of those privates But I have never heard of a safety issue or fistfight at the very top privates.

OMG the stuff that people post on here - so fights only happen at less elite privates! If you've read this thread multiple posts on here from Wilson parents attest that they are not concerned about their kids safety - the concerns expressed on this thread about safety at Wilson, as best as I can tell, are entirely from private school parents who can't seem to drive through Tenleytown without seeing a person of color on a streetcorner and then shatting on themselves in their imported SUV driving their sheltered kids home to Bethesda/Chevy Chase.

I largely agree with you, but, as a Wilson parent, I think some of the post defending the school are a bit Pollyanna-ish. One poster said something like it's just youthful exuberance on display after school. It is more than that and the school does have some real issues that you wouldn't find at a private or most suburban schools. That doesn't mean those schools don't have their own issues of course, but people can acknowledge problems at Wilson without being racist pearl clutchers.

I understand there is an incentive to defend the school when unreasonably attacked, but some of the defenses are almost as liberal with the truth as the attacks themselves.

I don't disagree with you at all and I think I made the earlier post you reference to about youthful exuberance.

But that is most of what is going on in Tenleytown when school lets out. There of course are some things that cross the line (I called the police about something just two weeks ago) but most of the kids are just letting off steam and being stereotyped on here at least by folks who don't live in the neighborhood and appear to be insecure private school parents driving through.

I've said a variation of this in misc threads on here over the years but as someone who lives in the neighborhood I'm far more concerned about me and my kids safety from their exposure to aggressive driving from entitled private school kids racing through the neighborhood - I've had far more close calls with imported SUV's with private school stickers on the back and teenagers behind the wheel.

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they took xanax, didn't realize it was laced

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Anonymous wrote:they took xanax, didn't realize it was laced

yeah, not that taking xanax is a good thing, but they overdosed bc it was laced

[Anonymous]

https://thewilsonbeacon.com/11230/news/student-overdoses-prompt-discussion-of-administrative-change/