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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I do think the state/districts could be more open about this stuff. I know what years ago (pre covid) you used the VDOE school report card used to list drug stats under their offenses data but now that data either isn't listed or is listed under an ambiguous name that I can't figure out (the listed offenses are things such as "behaviors of a safety concern, behaviors that endanger health, safety, or welfare of others, etc...). I am not sure why or when this changed. [/quote]

The reason we are given is that if they discover a student *in possession* of drugs with the intent to distribute them, it can then be a criminal issue which would be reported. The issue is, the kids are simply infesting the drugs and then having overdoses, so at that point it isn’t a criminal issue, it’s a minor’s personal health information, which will never be published for obvious reasons. Rarely do we recover the substance that the student has ingested because … they consume it.

Now, LCPS used to bring drug dogs in to do sweeps and they easily could do that now. I suspect the reason why they don’t is that WOULD be hard data that would reveal just how many drugs are in schools and they would prefer to not have numbers on that so they can pretend it’s not a problem. Because once they have that data, they can’t ignore it- they would have to invest time and money into a) revising policies that exist around drugs and b) creating actual supports or alternative placements for students who continually overdose at school, because right now there are none. Douglass school doesn’t exist any longer. There is no alternative school to send a student who keeps doing this at school. So they just stay in their school with access to the same drugs and making the same choices because they know at school someone will find them and treat them if they’re overdosing. It is quite literally safer to go to school and do drugs than to stay home and do them. [/quote]

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