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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Correction:  Arlington has a drug problem and is trying to do something about it.  The other surrounding jurisdictions continue to hide their heads in the sand on this issue.
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I'm sure it's very uncomfortable for Arlington residents to see their dirty laundry constantly aired.

Even so, it's debatable whether other jurisdictions have issues similar to those at Yorktown, which in part reflect what happens when you concentrate wealthy white students in a school that also loses many of the kids who otherwise would be the top academic performers to other schools and jurisdictions (to W-L for IB, and APS as a whole does not attract the motivated Asian kids like FCPS). [/quote]

Do we really know that the issue is especially bad at Yorktown (and Williamsburg), or is it possible that it's getting more attention there because the parents there get more attention when they're vocal and, to be perfectly honest, there's a non-trivial portion of the population that is shocked when well-off white kids get into drugs but treat it as expected and thus unworthy of note when poor black kids do it?[/quote]

While I disagree with PP and their comment about this being caused b/c of the concentration of wealthy white students, and lack of motivated Asian kids, etc., the answer to your question is YES, the issue is especially bad at Yorktown and there is data to prove it.  I don't remember the numbers but they were released by the ACPD and the large percentage of drug issues were at Yorktown.  In addition, if anything the "wealthy white families" are less than vocal and tend to dismiss or hide the problem, rather than being vocal at all.  [/quote]

Does anyone have a link to this data? I keep seeing it referenced on DCUM but can't find it anywhere else other than a statement to ArlNow that there were 18 drug arrests on public school grounds last year (unspecified which schools). Everything else I see is purely anecdotal, which potentially comes back to the question of whether it's getting more attention coming out of the rich white school than out of the poorer, darker schools. Maybe the problem really is worse at those schools, but I'd hate to think that all of the resources and support are once again being directed to the rich white kids while ignoring the struggles of other students.
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