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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, private or public, there are kids as young as 7th grade in private/6th in public doing this. It is pretty rampant by grades 9-10 despite what your kids are telling you.  I hate to break it to private school parents, but your kids aren't immune from these things. All kids with a smart phone know so much more than you can even imagine. And those who don't have one yet, hear/see about on their friend's phones.  Also any kids with older sibs/cousins know about it. They also know about pot and drinking and many of them have at minimum tried it. Our high schooler switched from public to private this year and based on discussions, the private school kids lag about a year behind public so from our family's experiences, plenty of 8/9 graders have already vaped and have moved onto drinking and pot.[/quote]

Are you even at a private school or do you just come on the private school thread to try to stir up angst for parents? If you’re not at a private school then you should not be speaking on behalf of them. [/quote]

Furthermore, all privates are not the same. Some are very large and are almost as large as the regular public school where it’s much easier to get away with this sort of thing. Other privates are very small and you can have only 10-15 kids in a class and you have teachers literally monitoring the bathrooms and there’s no way they can do this during the day. If you’re not in one of those schools you just don’t understand how hard it would be to get away with this. [/quote]

Yes and not trying to stir this up. Just relaying our experience this year - it exploded last last school year in public and definitely in private this year.  We are at small private ($40K) this year and it's going on at the small private in bathrooms/parties and kids doing it away from school (home, out and about) - not in class from what I understand but definitely done in larger public school classes. The private school is aware, not sure for how long but is taking some steps.

Honestly, I just can't believe the naivete/denial of some parents here about this topic and I see a few other posters who've stated the same.  The defensiveness here is quite interesting. There are now several threads here on DCUM about parents suspecting their kids of it. Of course your kid may not be doing it but they certainly know about it, and it doesn't mean it's not an issue with many kids at all types of schools in this region. It's reprehensible that tobacco companies have found/started this market and are getting such young teens hooked on nicotine - their brains are wired for it at this age.  Whether you believe it's an issue at your kid's school or not, don't you think it should be a topic of discussion? [/quote]

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