What is MCPS doing to keep drugs and alcohol out of schools and can more be done?

[Anonymous]

Adolescent exposure to alcohol, tobacco, marijuana or other substances may interfere with brain development with potentially harmful long-term consequences. As a parent, I understand schools cannot control what students do off campus but what about the behavior of kids while they are on school property and during school hours? Kids at my child's high school bring illegal substances to school in their backpack. They keep their backpacks with them the entire day so locker searches will prove pointless. Drug deals occur in the hallways between classes, in the cafeteria at lunch, as well as in the classrooms while instruction is taking place.

Does MCPS have a plan to address the prevalent use of drugs and alcohol in their schools as well as a plan of prevention to keep drugs and alcohol out of schools?

[Anonymous]

Yes, it's called parents doing a drug search in their rooms and backpacks. Screw privacy. Safety trumps privacy in my book.

[Anonymous]

Transfer your child to Churchhill..no drugs there See todays other post about choice of schools.

[Anonymous]

Which school?

[Anonymous]

If your kids know who is selling drugs and how they are doing it, perhaps the solution is for your kids to report the illegal activities to the administration.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's called parents doing a drug search in their rooms and backpacks. Screw privacy. Safety trumps privacy in my book.

Yup. I love when people want to transfer their parental responsibility to schools. Must make them feel so much better when it's the schools who fail to raise their children well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If your kids know who is selling drugs and how they are doing it, perhaps the solution is for your kids to report the illegal activities to the administration.

First, from the dealers my kid knows about, there are multiple individuals. Most are boys but some are girls as well. My child is afraid a reprisals if she names the kids to the school administration. Even if the dealers are suspended or expelled, they live in our neighborhood and are capable of violence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Transfer your child to Churchhill..no drugs there See todays other post about choice of schools.

Ahahahahahahh! That's one of the worst!

[Anonymous]

Tell the School Resource Officer.

[Anonymous]

This should include the ADD drugs that the kids who don't have ADD take to get the high test scores. But some of the parents probably turn a blind eye to this since their kids are performing so well in school. So sad.

[Anonymous]

Need NARCs. Can anyone say 21 Jump Street?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's called parents doing a drug search in their rooms and backpacks. Screw privacy. Safety trumps privacy in my book.

So you could care less about drugs being dealt and used in your child's school as long as your child isn't the one who is doing it?

How do you think kids being high in class affects the learning atmosphere for the rest of the class?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's called parents doing a drug search in their rooms and backpacks. Screw privacy. Safety trumps privacy in my book.

So you could care less about drugs being dealt and used in your child's school as long as your child isn't the one who is doing it?

How do you think kids being high in class affects the learning atmosphere for the rest of the class?

If someone is high in class, why isn't the teacher handling it? High schools have oodles of security staff and at least one police officer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tell the School Resource Officer.

Never came across that title in our school directory. What does the School Resource Officer do and how can they help to keep drugs and alcohol out of school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, it's called parents doing a drug search in their rooms and backpacks. Screw privacy. Safety trumps privacy in my book.

So you could care less about drugs being dealt and used in your child's school as long as your child isn't the one who is doing it?

How do you think kids being high in class affects the learning atmosphere for the rest of the class?

I'm PP. I can't parent everyone else's child. I can only make sure my kid isn't doing them. It's not the school's responsibility to make sure my kid is not doing drugs, just like it's no one else's responsibility but mine to make sure my kid wakes up in the morning to go to school and is prepared for school.