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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP.

My spidey-senses get triggered when there is a new "law" that requires schools to disclose information that has no discernable use to most people.

That makes me think that this is meant by Youngkin to be a passive smear/fear campaign -- you know -- like "oh my god, these schools are filled with drug addicts" and how the Fox news crowd tries to hype the "cities are scary places b/c everyone is getting mugged, car-jacked, shop-lifted, murdered, etc."

I don't have a problem with local news making a mention of a death at X high school.  I just question the value of the district administration sending out an email each time some kid has an overdose death.  Why don't they send out an email every time someone is caught having a fight in my kid's school?  THAT has more relevance to my kid's safety than me being notified each time a kid in some other school has overdosed.  I have no need for that info.

The fact that this edict came down from the governor -- when it's never been done before and doesn't give me any info. that I can use to make my kid safer --- makes me think it has political intentions.[/quote]

100% yes. And i think I mentioned above, there is no requirement for private schools to do this. It is focused on public schools. It is part of an overall campaign to [b]erode trust in public schools[/b]. I agree that keeping statistics on this would be fantastic. It be great if parents had access to drug statistics at their school. IN fact, the VDOE used to provide this info (at least generically, it wasn't OD related but it did mention paraphernalia and actual drugs). But that info disappeared from the website and the EO say nothing about schools and data and keeping track of anything so we can recognize trends and get useful information. Its focused on parents rights[/quote]

The Fairfax County School Board and Superindendent do plenty to erode trust in the public school system, there's not much the Governor can do at this point to make it worse.[/quote]

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