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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's everywhere.  Public and private.  At jackson Reed many of the neighborhood kids start at 14/15. i live adjacent to the school and dozens of my neighbor's kids smoke every morning.  If they wait until 16/17 at GDS you've bought yourself 2 yrs.  [/quote]
Wrong forum. [/quote]
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OP specified private. [/quote]
I have teens in both public and private and I have experience with this so I "qualify" to respond.  This is a serious topic.  The PP said it was in public and private.  I appreciate their post.  I also see the same.  I think it's on the rise.  The private kids are buying from the same dealers as the public kids.  Recently I toured a DC private that featured posters about vaping help.  But I think many heads of school are looking the other way.  THC vaping is normalized in social media as a healthy alternative to alcohol.  Vapes fit in pockets and can be used constantly throughout the day.  I think parents need to be talking a lot more about this with their kids than they are.  For a teen who was found buying or using these, I would be confiscating paraphernalia and cutting off money.[/quote]

Don’t blame the heads of school. None of them think this is good for kids, education, society, and none of them wanted it in their school.  But you should blame the parents (ourselves) for giving our kids cell phones way too early, because that’s how they find their drugs, among other things, and social media has been terrible for the anxiety and depression of these kids.   Blame society for the normalization and legalization of weed.  Blame the chemists that have turned marijuana into a seriously harmful psychedelic.  Blame the tobacco companies that pivoted to flavored vapes that are virtually undetectable (as opposed to the smell of cigarettes and joints) and all the companies that came after them whether it’s with nicotine or THC.  And yes, blame the parents who have done it around their kids and keep it in the house and told their kids it’s OK if they do it.   [/quote]

No, the schools have some responsibility here. [/quote]
What do you think that for $60k a year you’re paying for them to raise your kid and keep them off drugs, even though your kid is only at school a third of the day, five days a week, 30 weeks out of the year? That’s your job. And you can work at it as hard as you possibly can and you still might fail.  Any kid caught with nicotine and THC at the school my kid goes to in Northwest DC has been suspended or expelled. That’s all the head of school can do.
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When I’m paying 60,000 a year, I expect more supervision on overnight field trips so drugs are not being used in the room My child is staying in.[/quote]

Do you propose a bag search? Search dogs?  No doubt about it, there’s always a troublemaker bringing something on the overnight field trips, even after signing the code of conduct.  Maybe it’s your kid?  Did you search your kid’s stuff before they went to that overnight field trip?[/quote]

I have a child in private and one in public. When my child’s public school band went on a four day trip, they sure did search bags. If a public school can do this with 100 kids on a trip why can’t a private?  [/quote]

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