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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see any point in forcing FCPS to "notify" parents when each overdose happens.

What value does that bring to 99% of the parents?  We are just now aware that some unknown kid in some other school died.  What am I supposed to do with that information?  It has zero effect on me.  And then the repeated "notice" each time will also have zero effect on me other than to give [b]the false impression that kids are dying[/b] right and left.

The number of overdoses should be reported on an annual basis.  But, it is essentially useless information, that I guess is meant to make public schools look bad????  Is this part of Youngkin's agenda to ultimately drive parents away from public schools, into private (more religious) schools, and increase homeschooling funding?

This kind of publicity has very little useful information to the vast majority of parents.[/quote]

This kid died.  Your denialism is false, not the teen's overdose death.

This information is useless to you but for other people, they learn that teens are dying.  Information that they previously didn't know.  [/quote]

The PP said they should report the figures--that is share information-- not have to notify everyone every time something happens to a student.  FCPS is one of the largest districts in the country.  When you are in a school district this large,  it is just too hard to meaningfully make sense about everything that happens at every school--there are nearly 200 schools in FCPS and 185,000 students.   Some are going to get into car crashes,  overdose on drugs, run away, commit crimes, commit suicide etc.  It's sad, but it's not like the news reports everything that happens in a city either.  If we all spent all day we couldn't listen to all the bad things (or good things) that happen in the world around us.  We don't live in a small town and we don't have a neighborhood school district--we are not going to know all our neighbor's business--nor should we. There are also laws protecting privacy and conventions about respecting family wishes. [/quote]

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