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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One reason we sent our son to an independent school was that we wanted him to be in a more sheltered and controlled environment, [b]hoping that issues like bullying and drug usage would be nipped in the bud[/b].  But as I've been reading through other threads on the independent school forum, it does appear that smoking pot (and maybe even dealing?) happen with some frequency even in the private school setting.  Maybe no more than at the public schools, but certainly no less.

If you have a high schooler in one of the DC independent school, do you have a sense of whether this is a true problem, or just isolated incidents which are highly publicized or gossiped about simply because it occurs at a DC private school?  In other words, do you know whether your kid or any in his/he social circle is actually smoking pot, whether experimenting or abusing?[/quote]

I am sorry but seriously?  So you think that paying $20k+ a year ensures that these things do not exist in your school?  Did you go through life with blinders on?  If anything, the kids are private school with access to more money from their parents will be able to but more drugs and alcohol than kids at public school.  My public school friends were definitely not as involved with these things as the private school kids I knew is High school.[/quote]

I could have written this post.  Do not kid yourself, private school kids have access to drugs and alcohol.[/quote]Actually I think this is a bigger problem for well-to-do white kids generally.  My white dd was much more exposed to drugs and alcohol at her private school than she was at her majority AA DCPS magnet high school.  And when she was in DCPS, she used to run off to Bethesda to hang out with her white, well-off, drug-using B-CC friends.  Two of my daughter's rich white friends were even addicted to heroin.  That's why I always have to laugh during the typical suburb/city fights on DCUM when someone asserts that our kids will end up buying drugs on the corner in our urban neighborhoods.  They ain't gettin' it from the people on the corner.  They're getting it from their fellow students who are the children of white professionals.

OP, I'm joking around here but I know what it is to worry about your child's alcohol and drug use. The best thing you can do is to educate yourself and your kid and try to address it head on. But sending your child to an expensive private school is not going to protect them - it might even put them more at risk.[/quote]

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