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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kids are in a Bethesda-area high school and middle school. We received alerts to talk to our kids about fentanyl-laced pills, especially the ones that look like candies - just one pill can kill you. MCPS has drug and substance abuse awareness programs for students every year, which are very informative. I have personally warned my children never to take pill-shaped items from someone else in or out of school without verifying with me. My son has ADHD meds that he sometimes has to carry on his person,  in the original prescription bottle, and he knows exactly what the markings are and how many he has.

I know you created this thread to blame MCPS for everything, but I'm addressing the readers: MCPS can't detect pills. Metal detectors don't work in this situation. Strip and body cavity searching is not in the cards. What do you want MCPS to do that they are not already doing?

Fentanyl is a societal problem, and needs to be addressed at the national level. Drugs streaming across the border are as urgent a conversation as gun control, and indeed are linked to guns and trafficking.

Talk to your kids. Listen to them. Build trust from a young age. [/quote]

I don’t think that the OP is expecting MCPS to somehow solve the problem of drugs/gangs here in the US.

However, it is fair to ask MCPS to crack down on drug use AT school.  Why is it accepted that kids can smoke weed in all the HS bathrooms?  It’s still illegal for kids to smoke weed.

Our schools need more well-trained security walking the halls.  Bring back SROs and hire more of them.  More cameras outside of bathrooms and in hallways and at each set of doors.

There is more that MCPS can do, but it seems like some is us parents have given MCPS a pass.  Why are we so ready to just throw up our hands and say there’s nothing we can do about drugs at school because drugs are everywhere?[/quote]

PP you replied to.

I agree with you and the other posters who say that more enforcement would be helpful, but... my oldest is a senior. From the moment he entered K, there was a whole thing about restorative justice (advantages the perpetrator, in a bid to keep offenders in school and out of jail); kids could misbehave in class with little consequences; and everything was always about equity. My daughter at Chevy Chase ES was in art class one day when one perturbed child began tearing up the artwork, upending tables, throwing chairs and screaming. There was an all-hands-on-deck call for all the adults in the school while the students huddled in the corridor. In terms of criminal offenses, please remember the sexual assault case at an upcounty high school (Damascus, I believe) where the Principal made every effort to interrogate the victim and suspects and handle evidence instead of turning over everything to the police as they should have done. The victim's parents called the police first.

I have entirely given up hope that MCPS can enforce ANYTHING AT ALL. It has many great things going for it, but enforcement is not one of them.

So again - talk to your kids.
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