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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps because they're more into alcohol?[/quote]

Does anyone attribute it to parenting?[/quote]

The decisions that individual teens make? Of course!
The way parents handle drug/alcohol use in their kids and in their homes? Absolutely!
Whether a specific school (reputedly) has more issues with drugs or alcohol?  Probably not.

When I was looking into schools for my own kids, the question I asked of friends/kids of friends was not whether or not the high schoolers use drugs or alcohol at parties.  I assume that some kids at every single school in the area do use illegal substances.  What I asked was, if an individual student chooses not to smoke/drink/take drugs, what is their social experience?  Are they included? Teased? Pressured?  [/quote]

It can be attributed to school culture, parenting, peers, individual decisions.  If doing drugs is a negative among your peers at school rather than considered cool [making one popular] then it is something passed down through grade levels.   The issue of students at some schools having more drug use is based on teen input.   Smoke/drink/drugs/sex have various standard start times among different social groups.  There is not teasing, exclusion, pressure to partake at some schools.

There might be subsets of students who have different values but peopleare deluding themselves if they think there are NOT variations among schools.   Ever hear of being a friend NOT a parent?  I expect a school and mentor NOT a friend.   [/quote]

My dd and her extremely small social set of girls all attended public school before private.  They're not out partying on weekends and am not sure if they've had sex yet.  They're gorgeous girls but not getting asked out on dates.  Excluded. Since middle school dd has shared stories with me of abortions, stds that she's heard about beginning in 7th grade.  The few parties that she has attended, alcohol was definitely available with the parents in the house.  Also told me that alcohol consumption does occur at school -- instead of brown bagging it in, they hide it in their Starbuck cups.   [/quote]

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