Reply to STA's Substance Abuse Culture?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "STA's Substance Abuse Culture?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you don't notice your child is stoned, why would a teacher or a coach?  It's not like being drunk, with the tell-tale signs of slurred words; stumbling gait; odor of booze.  Students and parents should take responsibility and not try to slough everything off on schools.  [/quote]

Most upper school students at STA spend more time at school, sport activities, & other school-related events than time at home.  I dunno blood shot eyes, giggling, slurred speech, stinking of pot, lacking the ability to comprehend, problems with memorization, baggie of weed visible from their khakis' pocket...if my kid's behavior seems off to me, a classroom teacher who also sees him daily would likely recognize that something is wrong and would guess he's probably stoned.

[/quote]

This is exactly the problem.  I'm not saying that its the parents' fault, but this idea that if their children end up with drug problems, it must be the school's fault, the school must have screwed up, just seems like passing the blame.  While the kids may be in school more than at home, they are with each individual teacher for a much shorter period of time each day than they are with their parents -- I hope.  Why couldn't a parent notice all the above signs?  And if the parent didn't -- and I don't doubt the kids were good at hiding their problems -- how can you blame the school?[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics