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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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I'd love to see this data too. The principal at Williamsburg says he thinks the reason the school has a reputation as a school with a "drug problem" is because the stories of a handful of students who have drug problems get retold so many times in different versions, so it seems like it's happening more often than it is. Williamsburg parents are certainly a high-information, involved group...so I can see how this could happen. Would love to see data though. [/quote]

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