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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is really dangerous to believe that only “bad” kids are using drugs or even distributing them in school.  The data is clear that the fentanyl crisis hits all economic statuses equally. The problem I have been seeing is that we are in an era where everything is someone’s fault.  We sue for the most ridiculous reasons.  Now, we want yo expect high school teachers to be allowed (and I really don’t think they should be) to sit inside of the bathroom and watch the students?  That would inane in elementary school, none the less high school. Quite frankly, kids know that there is a level of privacy in bathrooms because teachers can not simply enter and there are no cameras.

By 14, all children should understand the risks of drugs.  They should know what an overdose looks like and they should be very knowledgeable about the different types of drugs and what could happen. Finally, every single child will have had the experience of peer pressure in some way.  Again, as a parent, you talk about this a lot.  If, even with that level of instruction and consistent communication, the child ends up taking a pill that someone gave them, it is still your child’s fault.  By 14, it is ridiculous to believe and stupid to want for the adults to manage every student conversation anc interaction that occurs in the hallways between classes.

We need to stop letting our kids off with believing someone else has the responsibility to keep them from ever making a poor choice and/or take the responsibility and put it on someone else. Maybe we should all remember how much time we had to practice our social skills and try out different versions of ourselves.  Remember how we would bicker and then figure it out?  Remember when we “little failed” and our parents didn’t bail us out?  I certainly don’t want to go back in time, we have made a lot of social progress, but if we don’t start letting our kids deal with the little fails, a bad grade, getting in trouble from a teacher, forgetting their homework, then I have  no idea how these kids are going to handle the big stuff.  High school is the big stuff, elementary and middle provide thousands of opportunities to mess up, a little, and it will never matter, as long as the child is permitted to feel the big yucky feelings of messing up and figuring out how to fix  it.

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Your logic has swiss cheese-sized holes in it.

You literally talk about kids "little failing" but overdosing on drugs and DYING is not "little failing." Your point about letting them get a bad grade, get in trouble with a teacher or forget their homework is valid.

But we should just stand by and watch kids overdose on drugs and die so they can learn their lesson? How does your moral compass make sense of that?

I'm also questioning if you actually have teenage kids if you believe 14 year olds, and teenagers in general, are capable of always being rational and doing what they should do. There's a reason for the phrase "young and dumb." Most teens know better but don't do the right for a variety of reasons. Knowledge of the right then isn't the issue. It's application of that knowledge in real time under high-pressure circumstances that teenagers struggle with.[/quote]

You really misread the “little fail” portion of her post.[/quote]

No I didn't.

[quote]By 14, all children should understand the risks of drugs. They should know what an overdose looks like and they should be very knowledgeable about the different types of drugs and what could happen. Finally, every single child will have had the experience of peer pressure in some way. Again, as a parent, you talk about this a lot. [b]If, even with that level of instruction and consistent communication, the child ends up taking a pill that someone gave them, it is still your child’s fault.[/b] By 14, it is ridiculous to believe and stupid to want for the adults to manage every student conversation anc interaction that occurs in the hallways between classes.[/quote]

She said if your kid takes a drug and anything happens to them, they deserve it because it's their fault. How else do you want us to read it?[/quote]

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