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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am the LCPS teacher. To be clear, I don’t want kids arrested for ODing. What I WANT is for the county to invest in alternative school options to better support students who habitually take drugs and OD at school. By the time you have a THIRD OFFENSE, you’re in crisis. ISR is not appropriate anymore. You as a student should be placed in an alternative setting with more support, more supervision, receiving drug counseling as well as academic instruction and AWAY from the home school environment that isn’t working for you. This is for the sake of the addicted student as well as the other students and staff who deserve their school to function like a school, not a drug crisis center.

At this time LCPS does not have this program. There is no alternative placement option for students in drug crisis. There needs to be. [/quote]

PP, is this not what the North Star high school is intended for?[/quote]

It is not. They do not want students as behavior referrals. But let’s just say we had a kid we thought was a good fit. That kid has to apply and be accepted to North Star and then *choose to go*. So some don’t get accepted or offered the chance to apply - certainly not the ones in this position. But let’s say a kid does get accepted- they can (and do) decline to go because they don’t have to. So they just stay at their school because - guess what - that’s what they want. Access to drugs, their friends, less direct supervision, etc.

There is no such thing anymore in Loudoun as an alternative school the way Douglass was or the way most of us view an alternative school. There is no “alternative placement” for kids who are recurring behavior issues at school or are in crisis and overdosing multiple times a year at school. This is what LCPS needs to create again to help schools actually manage this problem. [/quote]

First pp here again. Thanks, pp for that breakdown. What an insane policy. What needs to happen to have an alternative high school in Loudoun? [/quote]

DP here. A complete 180 on this whole restorative justice/no consequences movement. God forbid we hurt the drug addict's feelings. [/quote]

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