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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you think parental behavior will change to such an extent that student behavior will change, if the emails say the incident was an overdose?

"Hey, someone overdosed at your school today.  Don't be an idiot and take pills that might kill you."

"Okay, Mom, I won't."

Parents should already be having these conversations with their kids, who will either listen or not.  An email won't make a measurable difference.[/quote]

No. The point is to make parents aware of what the signs are if their child is on drugs or how to respond if their kid OD’s at home. This community mostly speaks Spanish. They don’t have the awareness of fentanyl and how drugs now are a very different level of risk than regular kid experimentation. The parents simply need to be aware of what this looks like so they can respond as well if their child has a medical emergency at home or outside of school. They don’t realize themselves how deadly just one pill can be. [/quote]

They don't realize the dangers of drugs because they speak Spanish?  That's absurd and insulting. The schools have been hosting info sessions about this, and they send it out in Spanish as well as English.  https://www.lcps.org/cms/lib/VA01000195/Centricity/domain/28227/flyers/OpioidsWhat%20youneedtoknowENG%20SPA.pdf

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You don’t get it. A lot of these parents work 2-3 jobs. They don’t always have the ability to attend these information sessions. Their access to email is different than yours - they’re not sitting at a desk job all day. Their data gets cut off so if they don’t have wifi they don’t read their email. They know there’s drugs. These drugs are different. White Ashburn parents are in denial about these drugs, ok?

To the person who asked why wouldn’t someone just special permission their kid to another school- ridiculous. There’s a lot to live about this school . Special permissions isn’t the answer. The answer is LCPS reviewing their policies around drugs in schools to help schools combat an issue they ALL face. [/quote]

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