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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the purpose of these email notifications other than to fan the flames of gossip and speculation? Why did the governor want this type of communication going out across the county? There are other ways to remind kids that drugs are bad. I feel awful for the kids who overdosed and are subjects of these emails as well as their parents. They deserve privacy while navigating this problem.[/quote]

I am grateful these messages are going out. Whether the email goes out or not, there will be gossip and speculation. Too many parents put their heads in the sand or are ignorant of that deaths are really happening in our schools even before HS. I wish we had a sense of how many non-fatal ODs are occurring. These happen in plain sight — in the past and to a certain extent even now — administrators gaslight student witnesses. Kid at our HS OD’d in the middle of the cafeteria only a couple years ago and students were made to continue on as if nothing was happening. WTF?! The kid didn’t die and was back playing his sport the next day. No wonder so many kids are checking out from school.[/quote]

There will always be gossip and speculation but sending county wide emails spreads it from just that school to hundreds of thousands of people (parents, grandparents, guardians). These are tweens and teens that are the subject of these emails. Imagine going through the trauma of overdose, already having everyone in your school know, and then now everyone else associated with FCPS knowing as well. Even if you do know it's going on, parent who want to stick their head in the sand will still say things like PP blaming "other" bussed in kids because it couldn't possibly be their snowflake doing drugs. [/quote]

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