another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to bring scared straight back into schools.

And Nancy Regan "JUST SAY NO!" Drug-free zones.

I was scared to try anything!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

The article in the original post mentioned groups of students skipping school and drinking alcohol. Also confined to a certain group?

I'm curious how every bleeding heart in APS just writes it off as: well its the Hispanics. The same people that wax poetically at how proud they are to send their kids to schools with such diversity.

I’m not writing it off as a Hispanic issue. My point was that since I actually teach ELL students in the public schools, this is something new we are seeing with our Hispanic population. Does it mean it’s limited to them? Of course not. But it’s is hitting this group hard - something I have not seen before in my 23 years of teaching ESOL. There’s a reason why the posters the DEA has put out about these fake pills are written in both English and Spanish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:^OMG, lady. You think the rich kids don't do this stuff????

Lack of supervision, lots of $ and entitlement + parents who think their angels would never do something like this.

The rich kids drink and do drugs, but they don't skip school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Time to bring scared straight back into schools.

When did that work?

[Anonymous]

Schools and teachers aren't doing enough!

/s

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:^OMG, lady. You think the rich kids don't do this stuff????

Lack of supervision, lots of $ and entitlement + parents who think their angels would never do something like this.

The rich kids drink and do drugs, but they don't skip school.

Drug use is going on in the school bathrooms…during the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic

Studies link opioid overdoses to lower income people. So far it's been a lot of lower income white people (who no one in Arlington cared about but been going on for a long time). Arlington doesn't have that many lower income white people.

What do you mean, no one cared about? What does “caring” look like to you?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic

Studies link opioid overdoses to lower income people. So far it's been a lot of lower income white people (who no one in Arlington cared about but been going on for a long time). Arlington doesn't have that many lower income white people.

These studies are about the opioid epidemic of the last decades - prescription drug overdose. Can begin with a legitimate medical problem; back pain, accident, recovery after surgery… combined with other problems… then gettting prescriptions from several different sources, lying about losing prescriptions etc. etc.

What we are dealing with in the schools is different; Fentanyl laced fake pills. None of these are from prescribed sources, all are entirely illegal and serve no medical purpose.

Yep, that’s how my mom got hooked- a car accident after which she was prescribed pain pills. She died in her 50s from substance abuse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Time to bring scared straight back into schools.

When did that work?

It freaked me out so much that it came into my mind and the reason why I never did ecstasy or coke in college... unlike the majority of my sorority sisters.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic

Studies link opioid overdoses to lower income people. So far it's been a lot of lower income white people (who no one in Arlington cared about but been going on for a long time). Arlington doesn't have that many lower income white people.

These studies are about the opioid epidemic of the last decades - prescription drug overdose. Can begin with a legitimate medical problem; back pain, accident, recovery after surgery… combined with other problems… then gettting prescriptions from several different sources, lying about losing prescriptions etc. etc.

What we are dealing with in the schools is different; Fentanyl laced fake pills. None of these are from prescribed sources, all are entirely illegal and serve no medical purpose.

Yep, that’s how my mom got hooked- a car accident after which she was prescribed pain pills. She died in her 50s from substance abuse.

This is a complete failure of physicians and pharma.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Time to bring scared straight back into schools.

When did that work?

It freaked me out so much that it came into my mind and the reason why I never did ecstasy or coke in college... unlike the majority of my sorority sisters.

Me too!

And my dad used to say one hit of heroin will ruin your life. You’ll become addicted.

You never know if you would get the bad batch of Molly. No thanks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

The article in the original post mentioned groups of students skipping school and drinking alcohol. Also confined to a certain group?

I'm curious how every bleeding heart in APS just writes it off as: well its the Hispanics. The same people that wax poetically at how proud they are to send their kids to schools with such diversity.

Hockey parent here who spends a ALOT of time at Ballston mall because of the ice rink.

The stairwell was a notorious weed smoking factory. Over the past year, I’ve smelled the aftermath more than I’ve seen the smokers, but that said — these kids most likely look like the ones in your own homes.

Don’t think for a single second that this is a lower income or minority issue at Ballston. I don’t know what happened today, but the the kids who frequent this mall have resources.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

The article in the original post mentioned groups of students skipping school and drinking alcohol. Also confined to a certain group?

I'm curious how every bleeding heart in APS just writes it off as: well its the Hispanics. The same people that wax poetically at how proud they are to send their kids to schools with such diversity.

Hockey parent here who spends a ALOT of time at Ballston mall because of the ice rink.

The stairwell was a notorious weed smoking factory. Over the past year, I’ve smelled the aftermath more than I’ve seen the smokers, but that said — these kids most likely look like the ones in your own homes.

Don’t think for a single second that this is a lower income or minority issue at Ballston. I don’t know what happened today, but the the kids who frequent this mall have resources.

Exactly. My kid always said the “best” kids are doing it more than anyone because their parents cared only about top grades and sports honors, and nothing else.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

The article in the original post mentioned groups of students skipping school and drinking alcohol. Also confined to a certain group?

I'm curious how every bleeding heart in APS just writes it off as: well its the Hispanics. The same people that wax poetically at how proud they are to send their kids to schools with such diversity.

Hockey parent here who spends a ALOT of time at Ballston mall because of the ice rink.

The stairwell was a notorious weed smoking factory. Over the past year, I’ve smelled the aftermath more than I’ve seen the smokers, but that said — these kids most likely look like the ones in your own homes.

Don’t think for a single second that this is a lower income or minority issue at Ballston. I don’t know what happened today, but the the kids who frequent this mall have resources.

Today it was fetanyl overdoses. They always said marijuana can be a gateway drug for teens…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard. It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield).

The article in the original post mentioned groups of students skipping school and drinking alcohol. Also confined to a certain group?

I'm curious how every bleeding heart in APS just writes it off as: well its the Hispanics. The same people that wax poetically at how proud they are to send their kids to schools with such diversity.

Hockey parent here who spends a ALOT of time at Ballston mall because of the ice rink.

The stairwell was a notorious weed smoking factory. Over the past year, I’ve smelled the aftermath more than I’ve seen the smokers, but that said — these kids most likely look like the ones in your own homes.

Don’t think for a single second that this is a lower income or minority issue at Ballston. I don’t know what happened today, but the the kids who frequent this mall have resources.

Today it was fetanyl overdoses. They always said marijuana can be a gateway drug for teens…

Cannabis, gummies, almost anything can be laced with fentanyl.