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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

The parents know. They aren't clueless and their neighbors are talking about it. Their kids are talking about it. I agree with your point about special permission. My kids went to different schools via special permission. They were never guaranteed a spot, they could be kicked out at any point and I had to manage their transportation. Try that as a working parent where no one from your neighborhood is attending that school.  Also the school they special permission in to can't be at or over capacity. The vast majority of the schools they'd want to move to are over capacity. 
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Its only year by year in elementary school. For middle school you get to stay through the end of middle school and same for high school. The list of schools projected to be overenrolled changes every year, but once you are in, you are in as long as you file your paperwork on time. I would not send my child to Park View. We are at Dominion and its bad enough. [/quote]

Not true. My kids were never guaranteed a spot and we special permissioned from elementary to high school. The bit about being in as long as you file your paperwork is absolutely wrong. My kid attended a high school freshman and sophomore year and then we were told because the school was over capacity that we had to go back to our base school. You do not know what you are talking about.   [/quote]

Maybe the policy is newer than your kids. It’s written in now. [/quote]

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