Oakton high school overdose

[Anonymous]

They should make watching that video mandatory in schools. Totally heartbreaking for the family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

Um, parents are working. FCPS can hire monitors. They did for Covid.

Community members are better police than outsides. The transactionalization of community is why society is falling apart.

Sorry, I don’t want unvetted, unpaid volunteers at the bathrooms.

[Anonymous]

When I click on the link it says video not available.

[Anonymous]

Madison High School is no better - my kids say it’s like a drug cartel in the bathrooms. Under the new principal, they are trying to monitor more closely. Old principal could have cared less as long as you were a star athlete. I grew up in FCPS and we had a smoking lounge. Sounds crazy but I can tell you nobody was smoking in the bathrooms and you knew where all the drugs were being dealt. If you didn’t want a part of it, you didn’t go in the “lounge”. The lounge was monitored regularly and when the class bell rang, you were instructed to get back to class - I mean it can happen anywhere but it seems like it was more controlled in weird way. My understanding is that even during actual class instruction, there is so much movement in the hallways at Madison, you wouldn’t even believe class is in session. Again something the new principal is trying to challenge. Btw, it’s not just deaths from some of these drugs but what about the fact that kids can go into psychosis from taking them. How about it’s proven that some of these drugs can bring on Schizophrenia. Nobody ever talks about that but the issue is real. Idk what the answer is but I am grateful that Cayden’s parents have come forward and reminded us as they say “it’s not a mistake you make and learn from - it’s a mistake that can bury you”. I am so sorry for their pain and loss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Madison High School is no better - my kids say it’s like a drug cartel in the bathrooms. Under the new principal, they are trying to monitor more closely. Old principal could have cared less as long as you were a star athlete. I grew up in FCPS and we had a smoking lounge. Sounds crazy but I can tell you nobody was smoking in the bathrooms and you knew where all the drugs were being dealt. If you didn’t want a part of it, you didn’t go in the “lounge”. The lounge was monitored regularly and when the class bell rang, you were instructed to get back to class - I mean it can happen anywhere but it seems like it was more controlled in weird way. My understanding is that even during actual class instruction, there is so much movement in the hallways at Madison, you wouldn’t even believe class is in session. Again something the new principal is trying to challenge. Btw, it’s not just deaths from some of these drugs but what about the fact that kids can go into psychosis from taking them. How about it’s proven that some of these drugs can bring on Schizophrenia. Nobody ever talks about that but the issue is real. Idk what the answer is but I am grateful that Cayden’s parents have come forward and reminded us as they say “it’s not a mistake you make and learn from - it’s a mistake that can bury you”. I am so sorry for their pain and loss.

Parents should call the principal and request actions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Parents should call the principal and request actions

It should be the other way around. Parents need to be taking actions. They have way more power than the schools. Whose money is paying for the drugs? Where are the drugs stored at night? Who can test kids without their permission?

School leaders can care deeply but buildings have a handful of administrators and thousands of students. Families need to step up and take actions too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

HS teacher and HS parent and no, I’m not for this. What are they looking for? Any kid eating anything? Can you tell the difference if they quickly take a pill, a piece of candy or a mint? I can’t. Are you standing there waiting to see if anyone passes out to call 911? Plenty of kids are around who will already call 911. If anything, this will invite people into schools to deal drugs more easily. Don’t say you will only get parents who have been screened. We can’t ever get enough volunteers to help proctor AP and IB tests and that involves just sitting there.

[Anonymous]

I’m a teacher and agree that sounds like a nightmare. Do you understand the level of chaos and liability you introduce just having different adults in the building each day?

[Anonymous]

I can very easily imagine a mom I know volunteering... she goes on cocaine and Molly binges each weekend that the Dad has custody of their kids and she's free. But very put together and normal on the surface. Wish I was kidding.

[Anonymous]

I'm glad Cayden's family spoke up and I'm glad they showed their house - I'm sure they did on purpose. I live in a house that looks like theirs. I'm one of those families who thinks "this could never happen to my child."

I just want to note - it's not just parents of teens that need to watch this and that need to be vigilant.

My children are in elementary at a school full of highly educated and wealthy families and I was part of a conversation this week where two moms were talking about where they keep their gummies/edibles and how there's no way their children could find them (top shelf of bedroom closet and back of husband's underwear drawer). I remember being 10 years old. I absolutely had access to my parents bedroom unsupervised and would go in there and snoop around. If I found candy in a drawer, I probably would have tried some.

Do your kids have free range around your home? Will they have free range around their friends' homes? What if they're wandering around upstairs at a friend's home and see some "candy" in their parents bedroom? What kid won't eat candy?

[Anonymous]

No one wants to work in schools. The administrators are already working 60 hour wks dealing with parents throwing hissy fits over everything from who sits next to Johnny in class to whether 2e Ellie is getting the special snacks mandated by her IEP.

Can't even get parents at our high SES school to show up to PTA meetings .....

[Anonymous]

I used the ladies room at Marshall last night during a basketball game. My stall had an empty Fireball bottle and lid left atop the pad trashcan. Just saying, when HS girls are chugging a fireball mini and heading into the game, past a phalanx of SROs and administrators the first night of Winter Break, there’s a long way to go towards alcohol and drug enforcement in schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

I bet that leads to more adults dealing drugs and assaulting students than it reduces ODs.

LOL try the other way around. Some teen who wants to get high during the school day punching out some middle aged mom/dad in the bathroom, oh and the entire assault was recorded and is now on TikTok/Youtube/IG for every kid from the school district to see, now your kid is getting bullied because mom or dad is a bathroom narc. Disaster all around.

[Anonymous]

Are you all for real with the bathroom attendant nonsense? What do you think they're going to do, strip search every kid who goes to the bathroom on the off chance a kid has a pill in his/her pocket? Or go in the stall with them to make sure they don't put anything in their mouth behind closed doors?

We had a kid OD at our school a while back in the main hall with tons of people standing around. Word is that his friend slipped him a pill, he put it in his mouth, and collapsed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are you all for real with the bathroom attendant nonsense? What do you think they're going to do, strip search every kid who goes to the bathroom on the off chance a kid has a pill in his/her pocket? Or go in the stall with them to make sure they don't put anything in their mouth behind closed doors?

We had a kid OD at our school a while back in the main hall with tons of people standing around. Word is that his friend slipped him a pill, he put it in his mouth, and collapsed.

I don't think we can keep kids from taking pills. I think you can keep kids from being 4 to a stall, vaping, filming each other, stuffing paper towels down the john, etc. And an adult could administer narcan and call 911.
I *dont* think these should be parent volunteers, that's nuts.