APS overdose at Wakefield

[Anonymous]

Yes no one may speak so the school board can jerk itself off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:An ambulance was called. There is zero indication or evidence that there was an OD. Classes are normal. Don't spread misinformation or drama.

-in WF right now

The dispatch call from 911 literally said it was a potential overdose- go listen for yourself. No one is making anything up.

This. It’s not drama it was an actual call and it specified potential overdoes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
On Tue, Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Arlington School Board will hold a Work Session on the topic of Opioids and Substance Use in APS: Education and Prevention. The meeting is open to the public, but no public comment is accepted. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available, and a recording of the meeting will be made available in other languages after the meeting.

School Board meetings can be viewed live online or on Comcast Channel 70 or Verizon Channel 41. Agendas and additional information are available in BoardDocs.

What’s Duran’s role in these work sessions?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
On Tue, Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Arlington School Board will hold a Work Session on the topic of Opioids and Substance Use in APS: Education and Prevention. The meeting is open to the public, but no public comment is accepted. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available, and a recording of the meeting will be made available in other languages after the meeting.

School Board meetings can be viewed live online or on Comcast Channel 70 or Verizon Channel 41. Agendas and additional information are available in BoardDocs.

What’s Duran’s role in these work sessions?

Sit pretty, offer empty words, and collect a fat paycheck.

The lack of accountability for these people is just staggering.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
On Tue, Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Arlington School Board will hold a Work Session on the topic of Opioids and Substance Use in APS: Education and Prevention. The meeting is open to the public, but no public comment is accepted. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available, and a recording of the meeting will be made available in other languages after the meeting.

School Board meetings can be viewed live online or on Comcast Channel 70 or Verizon Channel 41. Agendas and additional information are available in BoardDocs.

What’s Duran’s role in these work sessions?

Sit pretty, offer empty words, and collect a fat paycheck.

The lack of accountability for these people is just staggering.

Y’all always scream that they should run schools like businesses yet lack of accountability for the top of the org chart sounds like they already ARE running things like a business.

[Anonymous]

What have other school districts done to successfully address this issue? Is there a model we should be looking to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What have other school districts done to successfully address this issue? Is there a model we should be looking to?

Here’s a typical school district response from another school district in suburban LA / Riverside just this week. Not as serious a case but good for reference. The article does not talk about measures the district is taking to reduce such occurrences. Most schools eliminated DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) programs in the 90s. I think most districts and schools are still figuring out how to deal with fentanyl laced drugs and drug abuse in general:

“Several students at Vineyard Junior High School in Rancho Cucamonga needed medical treatment after consuming marijuana gummies on campus last week, authorities said.

Last Thursday, several students complained to school staff members that they were feeling ill after consuming the THC-laced candy.

“The Rancho Cucamonga Fire District responded to the school and provided medical treatment to the students,” the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department said in a news release.

Can you really overdose on marijuana? The simple answer is, yes
Authorities are working with the Alta Loma School District to identify the student who brought the gummies to school.”

— Article link: https://ktla.com/news/local-news/students-sickened-by-marijuana-gummies-in-rancho-cucamonga/amp/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
On Tue, Feb. 7 at 6:30 p.m., the Arlington School Board will hold a Work Session on the topic of Opioids and Substance Use in APS: Education and Prevention. The meeting is open to the public, but no public comment is accepted. Simultaneous interpretation in Spanish will be available, and a recording of the meeting will be made available in other languages after the meeting.

School Board meetings can be viewed live online or on Comcast Channel 70 or Verizon Channel 41. Agendas and additional information are available in BoardDocs.

What’s Duran’s role in these work sessions?

Why don't you attend and report back?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To the PP, there is nothing more schools can do or that I think should be on schools to handle this. We are doing absolutely everything we can including obtaining narcan ourselves, as I did this weekend, and bringing it to school to have on hand if it’s needed. We are sitting outside the bathrooms check student passes so we know a) who is in which bathroom and b) for how long.

Your question is well intentioned but honestly a bit frustrating for me to read because why do you think it’s on us as TEACHERS to do more to address narcotic abuse? Do you not think already that having to watch kids for signs of respiratory distress or dilated pupils while also trying to teach is too much? I was helping a teacher locate one of her students in the hall last week because he hadn’t returned to class and she strongly suspected he was on something and was panicked. We routinely see ambulances pull up right outside our classroom windows to wheel out a kid having an emergency. I am talking weekly. One day recently, it happened twice in 30 minutes. Thank god both lived. I heard my AP panicked and yelling at the locked single stall restroom the other day for a kid to come out because when he didn’t answer she feared he was in distress or dead. It is our daily fear we will find a child dead in a bathroom, we have to teach around that, and you’re asking me what more do I want schools to do??

I want SOCIETY to do something. I want this country to not be such a depressing hellscape that teenagers don’t feel this desperate need for escapism at any cost. I want parents educating themselves on this, checking their kids’ rooms and bags, enforcing boundaries and structure. I want better for these children but it is not on schools to somehow manage this crisis.

Is this really what's going on? Or teens experiment with drugs as they've always done and now the risks are astronomically higher than they've ever been?

This country has more than it's fair share of problems but calling it a depressing hellscape seems a bit hyperbolic, particularly given how much of the world's population lives.

I've really started to believe the lack of accountability and expectations for these kids is also part of the problem. Time to face reality. Caught even once in the bathroom doing this? Suspended. Next time? Expelled. Get some undercover police officers in the schools to figure out who is dealing and bringing it in. And then bye. One strike and you're out. And just generally zero tolerance for kids who regularly show up in a way where they are not there to participate in learning. Clear and swift progressive discipline and then expel them.

Kids need boundaries and they need to know there are boundaries that will be enforced.

You may think it is hyperbole but it’s important you realize that that IS the mindset of most teenagers. They don’t see a very bright future. They see unaffordable college or college followed by a job with stagnant wages that will never allow them to buy a house . They see climate change. They see a future where they are guaranteed to have fewer opportunities for success than any generation before them. Yes experimentation is normal but there is a generational ennui and disaffection, compounded by of course the last 3 years of seeing every institution fail, that has profoundly altered their worldview. You ignore this or deny it at the risk of completely minimizing a huge driver of their behaviors and choices.

+1000

[Anonymous]

Did something else happen there today?

[Anonymous]

Yesterday. Another kid OD’d

[Anonymous]

Is the kid ok?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the kid ok?

Yes, apparently.

[Anonymous]

Oh no.

[Anonymous]

Amy updates?