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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find the lack of alcohol/drugs thread here interesting.  In these days of stricter sales and more awareness by schools, getting drugs and alcohol must be much harder for kids at a smallish school.  Do you think that the kids are really doing fewer drugs or they are doing less detectable drugs like prescription drugs these days?  GDS used to have a druggie rep. in part because the kids could go off campus and smoke pot in the alleyways near school.  I'm sure the staff would be on any seemingly stoned student like a ton of bricks these days.  But kids sharing ADHD meds (especially if the homework load/pressure to succeed is as some posters here imply) might be less apparent to parents and staff.

Just wondering...[/quote]

The lack of drugs and alcohol is simply not true.  I don't doubt that PP's child abstains but both are there, at GDS and all other schools, but certainly GDS.  I know of some very specific situations.  Kids don't get high or drunk at school (maybe very rarely) but it absolutely happens on weekends.

But I don't think the choice of a school has a tremendous impact on this.  Some kids experiment and will anywhere; others don't and wouldn't anywhere.  The important is that they are happy at their school because unhappiness, depression, social problems, are a recipe for drug use.[/quote]

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