Wilson students marijuana use is reaching epidemic proportions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teenagers have been smoking pot forever -- when it wasn't legal for adults and now that it is. No one on this thread has offered anything beyond anecdotal evidence ("I think," "it seems," etc.) that pot smoking at Wilson has gotten worse, or that it's any worse there than any other school.

You mean since the 1960s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

The current primary also shows us that any Democrat with means sends their kids to private schools. Meanwhile, they experiment on our kids with their dystopian social policies in a shameless attempt to out woke each other. The lack of enforcement in DCPS is a main reason why almost all middle class AA parents will never send their kids to public. No way they are going to let DCPS undue a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice with their ridiculous look the other way policies on drugs, fighting, and attendance.

Trust me- while fighting and attendance are less of an issue at privates, drug use is just as prevalent, if not more so. White middle class kids have ALWAYS engaged with drugs and drinking at earlier ages than other demographics.

Where the heck are you getting that from? I’m white and middle class and my husband is black and grew up lower middle class and from his stories there was way more drug use at his high school and Junior high than at mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Teens have smoked pot widely since the 60s. Legalization has made users somewhat less discreet, but it also normalizes use to some degree which lowers barriers to use. For most adults recreational use is not a big deal and it's certainly less harmful than alcohol. I am concerned about potential harms of chronic use on developing teen brains.

OSSE has done a terrible job of educating DC teens on marijuana use in light of easier access and less social cost to using but that's hardly limited to DC public ed. The pro legalization advocates have really glossed over legitimate concerns about increased youth marijuana consumption and potential long term impacts. I wonder if the pendulum has swung too far from one extreme of baseless fear mongering towards another extreme of uninhibited use.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-pot-really-does-to-the-teen-brain/

This. It amazes me when people argue that legalization won’t increase usage. Many people who previously would never have considered it, and wouldn’t have known where to get it now are trying it. Even my own extremely straight laced mother in her late 60’s is talking about wanting to try it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

The current primary also shows us that any Democrat with means sends their kids to private schools. Meanwhile, they experiment on our kids with their dystopian social policies in a shameless attempt to out woke each other. The lack of enforcement in DCPS is a main reason why almost all middle class AA parents will never send their kids to public. No way they are going to let DCPS undue a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice with their ridiculous look the other way policies on drugs, fighting, and attendance.

Trust me- while fighting and attendance are less of an issue at privates, drug use is just as prevalent, if not more so. White middle class kids have ALWAYS engaged with drugs and drinking at earlier ages than other demographics.

Where the heck are you getting that from? I’m white and middle class and my husband is black and grew up lower middle class and from his stories there was way more drug use at his high school and Junior high than at mine.

Mostly from my own experience as a DC native who went to school with 99% black kids until I went to college. We knew not to even think about weed or drinking if we didn’t want to “get tore up from the floor up.” I remember seeing weed for the first time at an away game at Good Counsel. I remember it being the talk of our school for weeks. I went to a highly regarded PWI for college and was blown away at how the white kids were already very familiar with binge drinking and smoking weed. They did things I never even knew people did like robo-tripping and forcing themselves to stay up on sleeping pills because it was “trippy.” My roommate was eating shrooms on her sandwiches before class. It was a culture shock for me without a doubt. It was eye-opening though! It was my first true understanding of privilege.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Any call for decriminalization to be repealed is a fringe position far removed from the mainstream. That is clear from the current primary.

The current primary also shows us that any Democrat with means sends their kids to private schools. Meanwhile, they experiment on our kids with their dystopian social policies in a shameless attempt to out woke each other. The lack of enforcement in DCPS is a main reason why almost all middle class AA parents will never send their kids to public. No way they are going to let DCPS undue a lifetime of hard work and sacrifice with their ridiculous look the other way policies on drugs, fighting, and attendance.

Trust me- while fighting and attendance are less of an issue at privates, drug use is just as prevalent, if not more so. White middle class kids have ALWAYS engaged with drugs and drinking at earlier ages than other demographics.

Where the heck are you getting that from? I’m white and middle class and my husband is black and grew up lower middle class and from his stories there was way more drug use at his high school and Junior high than at mine.

You pick:

https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2015/dec/09/affluent-teens-twice-likely-drink-alcohol-regularly

https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_3941346

https://www.livescience.com/amp/59329-drug-alcohol-addiction-wealthy-students.html

https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2016/03/race-delinquent-youth-substance-use-disorder/

https://healthland.time.com/2011/11/07/study-whites-more-likely-to-abuse-drugs-than-blacks/

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wilson has not cracked down hard on anything. Not sure what you are talking about. DCPS became more strict about attendance after the Ballou scandal.
Drugs are definitely all over Wilson. Last year they had to call multiple ambulances during the school day because several kids became ill after ingesting some questionable drugs

Again, if you actually had kids at the school, you would know that the incident that you are referring to took place in April 2018 (TWO years ago, as I mentioned in my comment). Prompted by this crisis, the school began to work hard to get rid of kids selling hard drugs, and -- according to my Wilson student --- almost all were gone by the end of the year. There are currently far fewer kids selling or taking fake Xanax or other fentanyl products at Wilson.

Likewise the Ballou scandal happened in 2017, which prompted a DCPS-wide crackdown TWO years ago (as I mentioned in my comment).

Finally, according to the Wilson kids who are at my house every day, there was a lot more fighting in the school 4 years ago, but the school has worked to crack down on that as well. They don't call it expulsion, but several kids that I know of who got in fights are no longer at the school. One is at a charter, one is a Ballou, one is in military school and another is at Cardozo. My kid used to report big fights regularly, but says they hardly happen anymore.

So again, you know nothing about the school, have no kids there and have never set foot inside the building. Please go bother people on the MD, VA or private forum (or wherever your kids -- if you have any --- actually go to school).

Not sure why you are trying to shut down any negative comments on Wilson. I have two kids at Wilson so you are not the only “Wilson” expert on this thread. The homecoming dance this year had a lot of drug and alcohol issues.

The homecoming dance had kids taken away in ambulances. Some kids couldn't stand up. Look, this has to be a joint effort by the council members, community, parents and school. Call your council member and ask for law enforcement to monitor the tennis courts, Fort Reno and Tenley town, parents -WAKE UP- and engage your kids, and the school should kick out anyone who is obviously high. They're also allowed to check back packs. Many kids are binging on weed and alcohol. If you can smell it in the school then it's a major problem.

+1. If you can smell it at the school, it’s totally a major problem. Those parents who are downplaying it or are in total denial that it’s a problem are not helping either. Instead, parents should be working with school leadership to try to address the problem.

[Anonymous]

Pot was rampant in HS during the 90's. The BCC and Langley kids were the dealers.

[Anonymous]

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The homecoming dance had kids taken away in ambulances. Some kids couldn't stand up. Look, this has to be a joint effort by the council members, community, parents and school. Call your council member and ask for law enforcement to monitor the tennis courts, Fort Reno and Tenley town, parents -WAKE UP- and engage your kids, and the school should kick out anyone who is obviously high. They're also allowed to check back packs. Many kids are binging on weed and alcohol. If you can smell it in the school then it's a major problem.

Do you have kids at the school? I'm guessing not. They already xray every backpack every morning looking for guns. If they see obvious paraphernalia, the kid gets in trouble. Getting in the door in the morning is already a problem because of huge lines at the metal detectors.

If you want more/better enforcement (and I think that would be good) lobby for more budget -- more lanes of metal detectors, more security, etc.

I think even more lax enforcement is going to be an inevitable result of continuing to try to cram more and more kids into the school.