How often are students overdosing at school in FCPS HS? Is the problem overblown by media?

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Parents demand to know when a crime has occurred at their child’s public school.

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Anonymous wrote:In Arlington County, a student OD'd and sadly passed away at one of the high schools a few months ths ago. There have been at least 2 overdoses in the HS I work at in Fairfax this year. They do not publicize it even to the staff. I found out through students talking in my classes.

OMG. It’s like the kid never existed. Awful.

I’m sure the school pressures the family to keep quiet. Despicable.

Ok, have any other conspiracy theories to share?

If a child were injured by a gun or knife in the school, we would hear about it.

This is just as serious and parents should know--how else will they be aware of the problem?

So-called student offenders have rights too you know.

Including the right to privacy.

Liar. Criminals do not have a right to keep their crimes private. That’s why the whole world heard about the six year old American kid who shot his teacher.

But these kids are (in the moment) harming only themselves. They haven’t been caught distributing it or on their possession before taking it.

It doesn't matter. Parents need to know there is a problem. They don't need to know every last detail, but they do need to know that drugs are happening. If they don't know, they think everything is perfect.

Exactly.

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I think we have all been told ad nauseam that overdoses are happening in students across all our schools (if not on campus, among all student populations).

If a school sends home a letter that a student overdosed in a bathroom that day and was taken by ambulance for treatment, anyone who saw a student being taken away in an ambulance now has that student's personal medical info and their privacy has been compromised. See why that can't be done?

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Anonymous wrote:I think we have all been told ad nauseam that overdoses are happening in students across all our schools (if not on campus, among all student populations).

If a school sends home a letter that a student overdosed in a bathroom that day and was taken by ambulance for treatment, anyone who saw a student being taken away in an ambulance now has that student's personal medical info and their privacy has been compromised. See why that can't be done?

Gaslighting is incredibly harmful too. So, the ends justify the means? Their privacy is already compromised because their OD episode was on public display. Sorry. This is on the same plane as gun violence in front other students. Can you imagine telling kids who witnessed some one going down due to gun violence, and the school saying MYOB? Ignore that there was a gun. Get back to class.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we have all been told ad nauseam that overdoses are happening in students across all our schools (if not on campus, among all student populations).

If a school sends home a letter that a student overdosed in a bathroom that day and was taken by ambulance for treatment, anyone who saw a student being taken away in an ambulance now has that student's personal medical info and their privacy has been compromised. See why that can't be done?

Gaslighting is incredibly harmful too. So, the ends justify the means? Their privacy is already compromised because their OD episode was on public display. Sorry. This is on the same plane as gun violence in front other students. Can you imagine telling kids who witnessed some one going down due to gun violence, and the school saying MYOB? Ignore that there was a gun. Get back to class.

So you’re saying you deserve information because the incident is already known? If it’s already known, you don’t need a letter about it.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we have all been told ad nauseam that overdoses are happening in students across all our schools (if not on campus, among all student populations).

If a school sends home a letter that a student overdosed in a bathroom that day and was taken by ambulance for treatment, anyone who saw a student being taken away in an ambulance now has that student's personal medical info and their privacy has been compromised. See why that can't be done?

Gaslighting is incredibly harmful too. So, the ends justify the means? Their privacy is already compromised because their OD episode was on public display. Sorry. This is on the same plane as gun violence in front other students. Can you imagine telling kids who witnessed some one going down due to gun violence, and the school saying MYOB? Ignore that there was a gun. Get back to class.

So you’re saying you deserve information because the incident is already known? If it’s already known, you don’t need a letter about it.

And you’re saying burying incidents at school whenever possible and diminish the severity of the problem. And tell witnesses suppress your anxiety about what you’ve seen. This is all normal.

I assume you support guns in schools too. Silence is violence here.

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Anonymous wrote:Anytime an ambulance is rushed to a school, parents should be notified. No personal info needs to be given.

As a teacher, I don’t even know every time an ambulance comes to my high school. Often I hear later that a staff member or student had an issue and often I’m sure I don’t hear at all. It’s a big school and most calls are not drug related. I don’t know if any over doses that have happened in my school. I’m not naive and know they could.

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Anonymous wrote:Anytime an ambulance is rushed to a school, parents should be notified. No personal info needs to be given.

As a teacher, I don’t even know every time an ambulance comes to my high school. Often I hear later that a staff member or student had an issue and often I’m sure I don’t hear at all. It’s a big school and most calls are not drug related. I don’t know if any over doses that have happened in my school. I’m not naive and know they could.

When I was younger, a kid died at our school. We had a school-wide counseling session and lots of talk about it - and that was just a brain aneurysm. When another kids' brother died of a drug overdose, we talked about drugs and why they are bad and mourned together as a school community. When we moved back from overseas, I told my kids "you will see, public schools here are the heart of the community. They will help you make friends and you will spend lots of time at school because you want to be doing activities and things." It couldn't have been more different. Not sure what has changed, but public schools are the farthest thing from the heart of the community these days.

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Submit a FOIA asking about how many times Narcan has been administered at FCPS schools and make sure to ask for a break down by pyramid at least if not by school

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Anonymous wrote:Submit a FOIA asking about how many times Narcan has been administered at FCPS schools and make sure to ask for a break down by pyramid at least if not by school

Any type of information that involves fewer than 10 students will be redacted by FCPS pursuant to an exception under VFOIA. You will likely have to pay to get the information and then it won’t tell you much.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we have all been told ad nauseam that overdoses are happening in students across all our schools (if not on campus, among all student populations).

If a school sends home a letter that a student overdosed in a bathroom that day and was taken by ambulance for treatment, anyone who saw a student being taken away in an ambulance now has that student's personal medical info and their privacy has been compromised. See why that can't be done?

No, I don’t.

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Anonymous wrote:I think we have all been told ad nauseam that overdoses are happening in students across all our schools (if not on campus, among all student populations).

If a school sends home a letter that a student overdosed in a bathroom that day and was taken by ambulance for treatment, anyone who saw a student being taken away in an ambulance now has that student's personal medical info and their privacy has been compromised. See why that can't be done?

No, I don’t.

+1 Poster made no sense. If everyone sees the kid carted out, then privacy is already compromised. Would you say if the kid had been shot? Drugs are killing more teens than guns in schools.

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If there is really a problem brewing within a school they can have a community meeting without sending out incident reports. Madison did this years ago when they were noticing more drug use at the school (this predates the opioid crisis by quite a while).

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Anonymous wrote:If there is really a problem brewing within a school they can have a community meeting without sending out incident reports. Madison did this years ago when they were noticing more drug use at the school (this predates the opioid crisis by quite a while).

Many years ago, the first PTA meeting I went to in DD's elementary school had a program about drugs. One thing I remember: marijuana is a gateway drug and don't forget it. Also, watch out if your middle school student is suddenly interested in breath spray--they use it to get high.

Mostly, though, the emphasis was on being alert.

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Anonymous wrote:If there is really a problem brewing within a school they can have a community meeting without sending out incident reports. Madison did this years ago when they were noticing more drug use at the school (this predates the opioid crisis by quite a while).

What does the body count need to be to trigger a meeting like the one at your school? If the grapevine at ours is correct there have been a few at our school, a couple for sure.