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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]To the PP, there is nothing more schools can do or that I think should be on schools to handle this.[/b] We are doing absolutely everything we can including obtaining narcan ourselves, as I did this weekend, and bringing it to school to have on hand if it’s needed. We are sitting outside the bathrooms check student passes so we know a) who is in which bathroom and b) for how long.

Your question is well intentioned but honestly a bit frustrating for me to read because why do you think it’s on us as TEACHERS to do more to address narcotic abuse? Do you not think already that having to watch kids for signs of respiratory distress or dilated pupils while also trying to teach is too much? I was helping a teacher locate one of her students in the hall last week because he hadn’t returned to class and she strongly suspected he was on something and was panicked. We routinely see ambulances pull up right outside our classroom windows to wheel out a kid having an emergency. I am talking weekly. One day recently, it happened  twice in 30 minutes. Thank god both lived. I heard my AP panicked and yelling at the locked single stall restroom the other day for a kid to come out because when he didn’t answer she feared he was in distress or dead.  It is our daily fear we will find a child dead in a bathroom, we have to teach around that, and you’re asking me what more do I want schools to do??

I want SOCIETY to do something. I want this country to not be such a depressing hellscape that teenagers don’t feel this desperate need for escapism at any cost. I want parents educating themselves on this, checking their kids’ rooms and bags, enforcing boundaries and structure. I want better for these children but it is not on schools to somehow manage this crisis. [/quote]

The school could provide Narcan and narcan training to every single student in the building.

The school could offer an anonymous way for students to contact the existing SRO - the officer isn't resident in the school but one is still assigned - and make sure they publicize this over and over and over - day in and day out

The school could offer an assembly to students with a professional who discusses what fentanyl is and how it gets in pills and what can happen.  I think they should offer fentanyl test strips. No students won't use them when they are in a group but if a kid is going to pop some pills while they are not in a group, yeah, they might think twice and test. Better to give them the info then to pretend it doesn't exist.

The school could ask for better monitoring of the security persons employed by the school by their employer. They can reach out and say they want someone to come in from the company bc they are having issues. The security persons are contracted and they can even ask they be replaced if they feel their is a problem with one or more of them.

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