Wilson students marijuana use is reaching epidemic proportions

[Anonymous]

The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The pot problem at Wilson is no worse than it was before legalization. And as a parent, i’d much rather have kids smoking pot than drinking or doing other hard drugs. Frankly, I’d rather have them occasionally smoke pot than get hooked on vaping and addicted to nicotine.

You know kids vape pot in the school bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

Why do you care about what is done at schools that are not using your tax money? I’m not a private school parent. They can open a head shop at the private schools and I wouldn’t care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

Why do you care about what is done at schools that are not using your tax money? I’m not a private school parent. They can open a head shop at the private schools and I wouldn’t care.

Because singling out Wilson and its students is unfair. And more important, if the problem is “All DC teens smoke a lot of pot”, that calls for one set of solutions. If the problem is “Wilson students uniquely smoke a lot of pot”, the solutions are different.

If there is a problem, let’s diagnose it correctly so we can fix it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

Why do you care about what is done at schools that are not using your tax money? I’m not a private school parent. They can open a head shop at the private schools and I wouldn’t care.

Because singling out Wilson and its students is unfair. And more important, if the problem is “All DC teens smoke a lot of pot”, that calls for one set of solutions. If the problem is “Wilson students uniquely smoke a lot of pot”, the solutions are different.

If there is a problem, let’s diagnose it correctly so we can fix it.

Who said uniquely?

People are writing about the public school in their neighborhood. It has a big problem. Why don’t you want the problem in your neighborhood public school addressed?

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

Why do you care about what is done at schools that are not using your tax money? I’m not a private school parent. They can open a head shop at the private schools and I wouldn’t care.

Because singling out Wilson and its students is unfair. And more important, if the problem is “All DC teens smoke a lot of pot”, that calls for one set of solutions. If the problem is “Wilson students uniquely smoke a lot of pot”, the solutions are different.

If there is a problem, let’s diagnose it correctly so we can fix it.

Who said uniquely?

People are writing about the public school in their neighborhood. It has a big problem. Why don’t you want the problem in your neighborhood public school addressed?

It's all connected. These schools are more intertwined than you think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

Not to mention the US has only 585 billionaires, and if some of them smoked pot as teens, then you are talking about a teensie number of pot smoking teens who nonetheless became billionaires. Meanwhile about 22 million are underemployed or unemployed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The drug problems at the nearby private schools are much worse than at Wilson.

Why do you care about what is done at schools that are not using your tax money? I’m not a private school parent. They can open a head shop at the private schools and I wouldn’t care.

Because singling out Wilson and its students is unfair. And more important, if the problem is “All DC teens smoke a lot of pot”, that calls for one set of solutions. If the problem is “Wilson students uniquely smoke a lot of pot”, the solutions are different.

If there is a problem, let’s diagnose it correctly so we can fix it.

OP here- I agree. This isn’t a competition between public and private. I cannot speak to the use inside private school, but as parents this is our job to deal with. It’s not the schools job, although they can be helpful and have influence, but we need to be aware of this and deal with it without judging others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

Yes- pot has been engineered to have higher levels of THC. Kids carry stick deodorant in their backpacks and put it directly on their clothes/jackets to mask the skunk smell after getting high.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

Yes- pot has been engineered to have higher levels of THC. Kids carry stick deodorant in their backpacks and put it directly on their clothes/jackets to mask the skunk smell after getting high.

My spouse works in dc’s legal cannabis industry. This is half of our income so I have a different perspective. I am very much so engulfed in the legal and gray market scene. Soon our own children will be at the age where there will be peer pressure and misinformation. This is why we are getting our children familiar with the truth of cannabis before they have a chance to be sold dangerous trash cartridges or god forbid, synthetics. But we also know that at the end of the day our children live in a city and will be teenagers just like the both of us were. Education is power.

I, myself, work in education. Specifically- public middle school. I know that anything you tell an adolescent not to do, they will. This has been the case for teenagers since the beginning of time. Be careful of your sensorship and your language because you may be pushing your kids right into the row of senior cars that are hotboxing their mornings away.

[Anonymous]

I too have a 9th grader at Wilson and am very concerned about the pervasive weed culture there. I've talked to teachers and administrators, who are very frustrated by kids nodding off in class. They blame the parents. The parents wonder why the school doesn't do something. The kids think it's cool or just a way to get through the day. I think there's a sense that weed has flooded the zone and it's pointless to fight it. FWIW, parents I know in other cities say the same thing. To the posters who think we're overreacting, do you really think there's nothing wrong with 14 yo kids getting high before school or on a regular basis?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

Yes- pot has been engineered to have higher levels of THC. Kids carry stick deodorant in their backpacks and put it directly on their clothes/jackets to mask the skunk smell after getting high.

My spouse works in dc’s legal cannabis industry. This is half of our income so I have a different perspective. I am very much so engulfed in the legal and gray market scene. Soon our own children will be at the age where there will be peer pressure and misinformation. This is why we are getting our children familiar with the truth of cannabis before they have a chance to be sold dangerous trash cartridges or god forbid, synthetics. But we also know that at the end of the day our children live in a city and will be teenagers just like the both of us were. Education is power.

I, myself, work in education. Specifically- public middle school. I know that anything you tell an adolescent not to do, they will. This has been the case for teenagers since the beginning of time. Be careful of your sensorship and your language because you may be pushing your kids right into the row of senior cars that are hotboxing their mornings away.

Censorship- sorry, I waked and baked this morning.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't worry too much. Some of our country's most prominent billionaires were high for their entire high school years.

Along with many more sad sacks who don't have billions of dollars. The potency of today's pot along with forming brains is a pretty bad combo for a daily habit at this age.

Yes- pot has been engineered to have higher levels of THC. Kids carry stick deodorant in their backpacks and put it directly on their clothes/jackets to mask the skunk smell after getting high.

My spouse works in dc’s legal cannabis industry. This is half of our income so I have a different perspective. I am very much so engulfed in the legal and gray market scene. Soon our own children will be at the age where there will be peer pressure and misinformation. This is why we are getting our children familiar with the truth of cannabis before they have a chance to be sold dangerous trash cartridges or god forbid, synthetics. But we also know that at the end of the day our children live in a city and will be teenagers just like the both of us were. Education is power.

I, myself, work in education. Specifically- public middle school. I know that anything you tell an adolescent not to do, they will. This has been the case for teenagers since the beginning of time. Be careful of your sensorship and your language because you may be pushing your kids right into the row of senior cars that are hotboxing their mornings away.

Censorship- sorry, I waked and baked this morning.[/l]

Wow. This joke is in poor taste. And you are exactly the wrong adult model to have in a middle school.
I’m skeptical you live in the District. Few kids drive to school at Wilson. Most kids take public transportation and buy their weed behind the tennis courts, panera, chick fil a and the Whole Foods parking lot.