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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is from school board member Ian Sorotkin's FB page.

"Fentanyl is a national crisis, and one that we are not immune to in Loudoun County. What we need right now isn’t election eve politics, it’s help. The issue of fentanyl in our schools has been on our radar for some time. LCPS held six informational sessions on the matter last spring in collaboration with the Loudoun County Sheriff’s Office and has been intentional about awareness and education in numerous newsletters, messages, and press releases. We now have Naloxone in all schools and have staff at each school trained in its use.

LCPS has protocols and supports in place when we discover that individual students are struggling with drug use. Those protocols offer support and resources to the student and their family. That said, supports for juveniles suffering with addiction issues are few and far between, waitlists are long, and treatment is often cost prohibitive. Now is the time to come together as a community and right that wrong. Our kids deserve better, and it is up to us to do better for them."[/quote]

This. It is clear LCPS is trying to do everything they can to deal with this very difficult situation. The nut jobs make it sound like there is some magic wand to fix this or they think staging 500 cops inside the schools and turning them in to prisons would be better. [/quote]

I’m an LCPS teacher. No, LCPS is NOT doing everything they can to help this. Not at all. [/quote]

Wow is that right? 
This is scary.
Where do you think most of it takes place inside the school? Is it in  open view to kids in school? Can they see whoever is doing it?
I am SO scared of exposure to other  kids.[/quote]

That has nothing to do with LCPS and what it’s doing. Kids experiment with drugs. That’s not new. What is new is how deadly fentanyl is and how prevalent it is in the pills kids are getting and taking.

LCPS’ policy says that if a kid overdoses at school, the first offense is 3 days in ISR. The second offense is 5 or 7 days in ISR. The third offense is 10 days. After the 3rd offense (which mind you, means that likely the school crisis team has likely had to save their life 3 times) the school can “consider alternate placement.” But there’s nowhere for them to actually go. LCPS no longer has an alternative school like Douglass where kids can be removed from their home school environment and placed in a school with smaller numbers, more supervision, and more support.

North Star school isn’t used for this purpose - they don’t accept behavior referrals. Kids have to apply and be accepted and choose to go if they are accepted. They don’t have to go, and they can leave when they want and go back to their home school. These kids are addicted and just sitting in their school environment. The discipline matrix means there’s very little that can be done- they can’t be suspended for using drugs at school. Law enforcement will not pursue it as a criminal matter.

LCPS needs to reestablish alternative school options to SUPPORT kids who are overdosing at school repeatedly. Increasing days of ISR is not a solution. It leaves kids in crisis in schools where the staff and other students have to absorb the impact of their addiction and choices as well. Everytime an ambulance is called, the school goes on hold. This disrupts student movement  throughout the building and shifts class changes and lunches sometimes, depending on when it happens. Kids and staff are watching classmates receive life saving measures * in classrooms.* [/quote]

None of this is the job of a school. It’s the parent’s job, the community’s job, the health profession’s job, but definitely not the school’s. Somewhere along the way we decided schools were supposed to solve every problem. That’s patently absurd and it’s made the schools suck at the one thing they are supposed to do - educate students. [/quote]

When the overdoses happen AT the school, it becomes the schools' problem.  [/quote]

No. It’s illegal. Call the police and send them to jail. Not the school’s problem. I’m over it. [/quote]

I am an LCPS teacher. I have already said in this thread that the police do not and will not handle this as a criminal matter. Contrary to everyone else in this thread running their mouth and babbling about cartels and special permissions, I am actually informed on this as I teach here. You can’t just “call the police” when a kid ODs at school. They flat out will not arrest or charge or take any jurisdiction over the issue. [/quote]

Why is that?  Seems like the sheriff's dept should be involved in some way if there are drugs at school.  [/quote]

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