Is the drug problem as bad as it sounds?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another overdose at Kennedy High School again. In the girls' bathroom.

The high school bathroom situation is untenable and has been. How many of these incidents will it take for MCPS to respond from a security perspective? This week alone, you have the B-CC incident and now this.

Link to this?

Fwiw the poor child that died recently was found at home on the weekend, not at the high school.

Here you go. Found something on Twitter:

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another overdose at Kennedy High School again. In the girls' bathroom.

The high school bathroom situation is untenable and has been. How many of these incidents will it take for MCPS to respond from a security perspective? This week alone, you have the B-CC incident and now this.

Link to this?

Fwiw the poor child that died recently was found at home on the weekend, not at the high school.

You're right, Ashleigh did die at home, but her mother specifically complained about her daughter using in the school bathrooms at Kennedy and security and admin doing nothing to prevent her from doing so.

Sounds like she needed an inpatient program. Tragic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another overdose at Kennedy High School again. In the girls' bathroom.

The high school bathroom situation is untenable and has been. How many of these incidents will it take for MCPS to respond from a security perspective? This week alone, you have the B-CC incident and now this.

Link to this?

Fwiw the poor child that died recently was found at home on the weekend, not at the high school.

You're right, Ashleigh did die at home, but her mother specifically complained about her daughter using in the school bathrooms at Kennedy and security and admin doing nothing to prevent her from doing so.

Sounds like she needed an inpatient program. Tragic.

Her mother tried, but because Maryland law doesn't allow for you to commit someone involuntarily....no luck.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another overdose at Kennedy High School again. In the girls' bathroom.

The high school bathroom situation is untenable and has been. How many of these incidents will it take for MCPS to respond from a security perspective? This week alone, you have the B-CC incident and now this.

Link to this?

Fwiw the poor child that died recently was found at home on the weekend, not at the high school.

You're right, Ashleigh did die at home, but her mother specifically complained about her daughter using in the school bathrooms at Kennedy and security and admin doing nothing to prevent her from doing so.

Sounds like she needed an inpatient program. Tragic.

Her mother tried, but because Maryland law doesn't allow for you to commit someone involuntarily....no luck.

also the obstacles to pay for treatment are many. and it shouldn't be that way. I break my leg insurance covers it no problem, my brain isn't working properly, insurance won't pay, if they do, i get 28 days of treatment, it's tough to be successful without more care after a 28 stay and i am speaking form lots of experience. until our elected officials stand up to the insurance lobby more kids will die.

[Anonymous]

I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

There are 2300 students there so if the issue revolves around a dozen kids there are strong odds that it’s not your kid, however obviously people should be concerned about the welfare of all kids at school. Also, the B-CC boundary is geographically very large from Friendship Heights to Kensington to Laytonsville so the views expressed on the neighborhood Facebook group are obviously not representative of the school community. And if the kids lived in the immediate neighborhood, it would probably make more sense for them to go back home at lunch to do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

There are 2300 students there so if the issue revolves around a dozen kids there are strong odds that it’s not your kid, however obviously people should be concerned about the welfare of all kids at school. Also, the B-CC boundary is geographically very large from Friendship Heights to Kensington to Laytonsville so the views expressed on the neighborhood Facebook group are obviously not representative of the school community. And if the kids lived in the immediate neighborhood, it would probably make more sense for them to go back home at lunch to do that.

Hopefully when Woodward opens they can help address this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another overdose at Kennedy High School again. In the girls' bathroom.

The high school bathroom situation is untenable and has been. How many of these incidents will it take for MCPS to respond from a security perspective? This week alone, you have the B-CC incident and now this.

Link to this?

Fwiw the poor child that died recently was found at home on the weekend, not at the high school.

You're right, Ashleigh did die at home, but her mother specifically complained about her daughter using in the school bathrooms at Kennedy and security and admin doing nothing to prevent her from doing so.

Sounds like she needed an inpatient program. Tragic.

Her mother tried, but because Maryland law doesn't allow for you to commit someone involuntarily....no luck.

also the obstacles to pay for treatment are many. and it shouldn't be that way. I break my leg insurance covers it no problem, my brain isn't working properly, insurance won't pay, if they do, i get 28 days of treatment, it's tough to be successful without more care after a 28 stay and i am speaking form lots of experience. until our elected officials stand up to the insurance lobby more kids will die.

The county has free drug treatment programs and medicaid pays for low income. It's the middle and higher income that have the obstacles but there are lots of treatment options, some more affordable than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

They've been doing it forever. BCC has always been an open campus.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Another overdose at Kennedy High School again. In the girls' bathroom.

The high school bathroom situation is untenable and has been. How many of these incidents will it take for MCPS to respond from a security perspective? This week alone, you have the B-CC incident and now this.

Link to this?

Fwiw the poor child that died recently was found at home on the weekend, not at the high school.

You're right, Ashleigh did die at home, but her mother specifically complained about her daughter using in the school bathrooms at Kennedy and security and admin doing nothing to prevent her from doing so.

Sounds like she needed an inpatient program. Tragic.

Her mother tried, but because Maryland law doesn't allow for you to commit someone involuntarily....no luck.

also the obstacles to pay for treatment are many. and it shouldn't be that way. I break my leg insurance covers it no problem, my brain isn't working properly, insurance won't pay, if they do, i get 28 days of treatment, it's tough to be successful without more care after a 28 stay and i am speaking form lots of experience. until our elected officials stand up to the insurance lobby more kids will die.

The county has free drug treatment programs and medicaid pays for low income. It's the middle and higher income that have the obstacles but there are lots of treatment options, some more affordable than others.

Have you tried to get into those programs? how long do they last? do they provide treatment beyond the talk by a police officer? They don't. The county doesn't have capacity to help the amount of kids needing help.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

There are 2300 students there so if the issue revolves around a dozen kids there are strong odds that it’s not your kid, however obviously people should be concerned about the welfare of all kids at school. Also, the B-CC boundary is geographically very large from Friendship Heights to Kensington to Laytonsville so the views expressed on the neighborhood Facebook group are obviously not representative of the school community. And if the kids lived in the immediate neighborhood, it would probably make more sense for them to go back home at lunch to do that.

Hopefully when Woodward opens they can help address this.

Keep trying. The BoE has said B-CC is not part of the Woodward discussion - just WJ and the DCC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

There are 2300 students there so if the issue revolves around a dozen kids there are strong odds that it’s not your kid, however obviously people should be concerned about the welfare of all kids at school. Also, the B-CC boundary is geographically very large from Friendship Heights to Kensington to Laytonsville so the views expressed on the neighborhood Facebook group are obviously not representative of the school community. And if the kids lived in the immediate neighborhood, it would probably make more sense for them to go back home at lunch to do that.

Hopefully when Woodward opens they can help address this.

Keep trying. The BoE has said B-CC is not part of the Woodward discussion - just WJ and the DCC.

Well, parts of their boundary are much closer to Woodward than BCC and the board said nothing of the kind.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the neighborhood next to B-CC. The kids are walking into a nearby apartment complex/county parking garage to smoke weed for the last couple years. The school refused to engage because the kids were on open lunch mostly when it was happening. People were complaining about it on the neighborhood facebook page and the attitude from B-CC parents in the neighborhood was “not my kid, they don’t do that”.

There are 2300 students there so if the issue revolves around a dozen kids there are strong odds that it’s not your kid, however obviously people should be concerned about the welfare of all kids at school. Also, the B-CC boundary is geographically very large from Friendship Heights to Kensington to Laytonsville so the views expressed on the neighborhood Facebook group are obviously not representative of the school community. And if the kids lived in the immediate neighborhood, it would probably make more sense for them to go back home at lunch to do that.

Hopefully when Woodward opens they can help address this.

Keep trying. The BoE has said B-CC is not part of the Woodward discussion - just WJ and the DCC.

Well, parts of their boundary are much closer to Woodward than BCC and the board said nothing of the kind.

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4Johnson.pdf (WJ)
"Walter Johnson High School Capital Project: To address the urgent space needs at Walter Johnson High School and the Downcounty Consortium high schools, an FY 2019 appropriation was approved for planning funds to reopen Charles W. Woodward High School. "

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4DCC.pdf (DCC)
"To address the urgent space needs at the Downcounty Consortium high schools and Walter Johnson High School, several high school projects were approved that include an addition at John F. Kennedy High School, an addition and facility upgrades to Northwood High School, and the reopening of Charles W. Woodward High School."

https://gis.mcpsmd.org/cipmasterpdfs/CIP24_Chapter4BCC.pdf (B-CC)
"BETHESDA-CHEVY CHASE CLUSTER PLANNING ISSUES"
Woodward? Crickets.

But you can keep your conspiracy going that the BoE is secretly planning to open a B-CC boundary can-o'-worms when the CIP shows that the B-CC will be below capacity through at least 2037.