Do we talk about emails from Superintendent (overdose)

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Anonymous wrote: This week the House will be voting on a bill that would commercialize high potency THC products, including recreational marijuana.
HB 698 (D-Krizek) seeks to commercialize high potency THC products, including recreational marijuana, on every street corner, which will have serious consequences on our community and lead countless youth down the dangerous path of drug abuse.

If passed, more overdose incidents will be expected.

Are you living in the 80’s?

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Or the 30's...Reefer Madness!!!

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Anonymous wrote:What is the purpose of these email notifications other than to fan the flames of gossip and speculation? Why did the governor want this type of communication going out across the county? There are other ways to remind kids that drugs are bad. I feel awful for the kids who overdosed and are subjects of these emails as well as their parents. They deserve privacy while navigating this problem.

Because MAGA's love gossip and hate.

You are so fueled by hate towards "MAGA" that you refuse to see the value in this transparency:

A reminder to us all that this stuff is making its way into our kids schools. It's real.

Talk to your kids.

It's MAGA-adjacent because the governor's edict only applies to public schools. While maybe the notification to parents has value - I don't think it does, but I'm not oblivious/a NIMBY/a foreign national - the decision to require it doesn't come from a place of community education, but rather to [further] erode public trust in public schools.
Guarantee your MS and HS children know about drug use at their schools. I was the goody-two-shoes-est of middle schoolers and I still knew what crowd was drinking, having sex, etc.

It is quite puzzling as to the "requirement" for only public schools to post AND, as I recall, the posting occurs regardless of where the overdose occurs. So posting is required even if the overdose occurs off school grounds. There was an earlier postings of a Justice student and I believe W-L student and those overdoses(separate) occurred in their homes. I do think the required posts serve as a wake up call to severity of the issue. It is just ridiculous that it only pertains to public school children. We all know the issue is everywhere and private children also partake in drug abuse.

Why has no one said that a big reason that you inform, even if it happens off school grounds, is that the kid who OD’d got fentynal laced drugs from a dealer at the HS (which is entirely possible), every other kid in that HS who bough from that dealer is at risk. It’s sad it has to be this way, but informing the community it could save the lives of other kids at HHS. There have certainly been instances in NOVA of a bad batch of drugs killing or nearly killing multiple people.

Yes, privates should also have to post for the same reason. But reality is that it’s harder to force policy on school that don’t use taxpayer dollars.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I understand the impulse for more transparency, I can see why being slow to release information might be appropriate in some instances, especially if law enforcement is investigating and they don't want to tip a suspect. The 10 overdoses in LCPS were almost certainly traceable back to the same seller.

Okay. But what if there are other kids at the school with drugs from that dealer. If you don’t inform the community, those kids don’t know they have drugs that are laced. And then there are even more ODs. Not informing risks kids health and lives. And 16 year olds screw up. It’s not okay to sit back and risk kids lives just because they were dumb enough to buy drugs in school.

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Anonymous wrote:New overdose email. This one at Herndon high school.

We are all capable of reading our emails. Especially since we NOW know -whereas we didn't before- that there are kids who do drugs and that opioids are a problem.

I agree with the OD emails. But we’ve known that kids doing drugs is a huge problem for decades. Fentynal laced is new. But, someone in my HS class does of an OD less than a month before graduation— in 1988. Teens and drugs are not new.

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Anonymous wrote:It's hard to see this as a school issue. Kids spend all day in schools so that's where most things will happen.
The drugs aren't being manufactured inside the school from local ingredients. Once you've got millions of tiny pills floating around, they're going spread across civilization like dust in the wind.

It’s definately a school issue if the dealer is a HS kid. Which happen. That means that laced drugs could well b in the hands of any number of other kids. In that case, informing could save lives.

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another one...

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Does the kid that suspended from schoool?

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And another…I really hope these notifications make parents realize that it could be any kid at any school who makes one wrong decision.

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I don't understand how the school even gets notified. So they go to the hospital and the hospital is required to tell the superintendent?

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Anonymous wrote:Does the kid that suspended from schoool?

Not if it did not happen on school grounds. Which the majority of these overdoses referred to in the emails do not. As the email states “within the school community” “ a student that ATTENDS xhigh school”. Most of them occur off school grounds in homes or other community areas.

[Anonymous]

Why can’t they let us know what drug it is or what form? It would be helpful to know the ones that are most available or most attractive to our kids (and clearly the ones most dangerous). Are they drinking too much? Is it fentanyl? Pot laced? This would be useful in trying to mitigate and be honest with our kids about things.

Also if this is a VA law, is there data on which counties are worse per capita? Again it would be nice to know where this occurs more in case we have options of schools or neighborhoods. I’m not naive enough to think we can avoid forever but more info would be helpful.

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Anonymous wrote:And another…I really hope these notifications make parents realize that it could be any kid at any school who makes one wrong decision.

When majority of the community is supporting drug legalization, how can anyone expect kids say no to drugs?

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Anonymous wrote:Does the kid that suspended from schoool?

If a kid ODs, don’t you think they have bigger problems to worry about than suspension? Once you deal with hospitalization, and likely rehab, they been punished. Especially if they weren’t dealing. At some point, it’s just piling on a kid and family what’s already in crisis.

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If it happened at school, it’s an SR&R violation and there should be consequences from the school.