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Anonymous wrote:The guy is 19? Bad case of redshirting?

Not necessarily. My DD has a November birthday and will turn 19 senior year.

There is nothing to say the dealer goes to Winston Churchhill - the unnamed 17 year old buyer does - the 19 yo was just on campus.

More concerning was that he was a counselor at Calleva for the past two summers even though he had been busted for marijuana distribution a couple years ago.

Nothing except the story's headline and the lede.

Anonymous wrote:I have to wonder about this story. DS is a sophomore at Churchill and I have never heard of this kind of problem. All of the kids seem to be excellent, humble, grounded kids who would never do drugs or drink. This sounds like a story I would expect to see from a Wheaton or Einstein or QO.

Please tell me this is just trolling

I have to wonder about this story. DS is a sophomore at Churchill and I have never heard of this kind of problem. All of the kids seem to be excellent, humble, grounded kids who would never do drugs or drink. This sounds like a story I would expect to see from a Wheaton or Einstein or QO.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy is 19? Bad case of redshirting?

Not necessarily. My DD has a November birthday and will turn 19 senior year.

There is nothing to say the dealer goes to Winston Churchhill - the unnamed 17 year old buyer does - the 19 yo was just on campus.

More concerning was that he was a counselor at Calleva for the past two summers even though he had been busted for marijuana distribution a couple years ago.

makes you wonder what sort of background check Calleva does if any

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The guy is 19? Bad case of redshirting?

Not necessarily. My DD has a November birthday and will turn 19 senior year.

There is nothing to say the dealer goes to Winston Churchhill - the unnamed 17 year old buyer does - the 19 yo was just on campus.

More concerning was that he was a counselor at Calleva for the past two summers even though he had been busted for marijuana distribution a couple years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

At 19, the dealer was not a 'boy', he was an adult, and he should go to jail for a long enough time to understand that actions have consequences. And I, for one, don't feel badly for 'all involved', since those 'boys' knew exactly what they were doing. Ugh.

He's looking at up to 34 years in jail per the article. Crazy. Those kinds of sentences should be for dangerous drugs like heroin, meth, crack etc.

omg.. you people in your white bubble. I just can't. You must've thought that the ex Stanford swimmer rapist was treated unfairly, too. Two months was just too much, right?

You think 34 years for selling Xanax is appropriate? Just checking.

Just for grins, I left my "white bubble" and looked at drug sentencing in DC.

https://sentencing.umn.edu/sites/sentencing.umn.edu/files/2010_d.c._issue_paper_2_felony_drug_sentences.pdf

95% is for cocaine, heroin or PCP.
40% got paroled, 15% got split sentences and 45% got jail time.
For those that got hail time, the mean sentence length was 9 months.

But thinking that the possibility of 34 years in prison for selling 24 Xanax pills is extreme clearly indicates that I'm living in a white bubble.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

At 19, the dealer was not a 'boy', he was an adult, and he should go to jail for a long enough time to understand that actions have consequences. And I, for one, don't feel badly for 'all involved', since those 'boys' knew exactly what they were doing. Ugh.

He's looking at up to 34 years in jail per the article. Crazy. Those kinds of sentences should be for dangerous drugs like heroin, meth, crack etc.

omg.. you people in your white bubble. I just can't. You must've thought that the ex Stanford swimmer rapist was treated unfairly, too. Two months was just too much, right?

You think 34 years for selling Xanax is appropriate? Just checking.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

At 19, the dealer was not a 'boy', he was an adult, and he should go to jail for a long enough time to understand that actions have consequences. And I, for one, don't feel badly for 'all involved', since those 'boys' knew exactly what they were doing. Ugh.

He's looking at up to 34 years in jail per the article. Crazy. Those kinds of sentences should be for dangerous drugs like heroin, meth, crack etc.

omg.. you people in your white bubble. I just can't. You must've thought that the ex Stanford swimmer rapist was treated unfairly, too. Two months was just too much, right?

Anonymous wrote:Great that he worked at a summer camp for past 2 years.

more customers

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Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

Agree with the poster above. Clearly this boy has had problems for a while and his own mother tried to get help. There is no need to make this a "W" problem unless the "W" bashers prefer gangs (lots of those in parts of the county) to drugs. Unfortunately, the drug dealing goes on at lots of high schools.

Bet you don't say that about the brown skin kids in gangs.

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Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

At 19, the dealer was not a 'boy', he was an adult, and he should go to jail for a long enough time to understand that actions have consequences. And I, for one, don't feel badly for 'all involved', since those 'boys' knew exactly what they were doing. Ugh.

+1 Again, when it's a white rich kid then it's "he has deep problems". If it's a brown skin boy - regardless of SES - it's "he's terrible, bad parenting, blah blah blah".

I can sympathize if this was a first offense, especially if there wasn't injury or death involved. But this is the 2nd time he was busted and now has to pay the price. He didn't learn from his first mistake.

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

At 19, the dealer was not a 'boy', he was an adult, and he should go to jail for a long enough time to understand that actions have consequences. And I, for one, don't feel badly for 'all involved', since those 'boys' knew exactly what they were doing. Ugh.

He's looking at up to 34 years in jail per the article. Crazy. Those kinds of sentences should be for dangerous drugs like heroin, meth, crack etc.

I doubt it. Drug sentence can be up to that length but its unlikely he will face that kind of result.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is very heartbreaking. I feel badly for all involved. Obviously this boy has some deep seated problems. His poor parents. I hope he gets help, and I hope that no one dies or is harmed because of his drug dealing. I also hope that the boy who bought the drugs gets help. This whole situation is truly sad.

At 19, the dealer was not a 'boy', he was an adult, and he should go to jail for a long enough time to understand that actions have consequences. And I, for one, don't feel badly for 'all involved', since those 'boys' knew exactly what they were doing. Ugh.

He's looking at up to 34 years in jail per the article. Crazy. Those kinds of sentences should be for dangerous drugs like heroin, meth, crack etc.

Anonymous wrote:His mom didn't try to get him help according to the story, she called the police probably at her wits end. Many parents in these situations are enablers and are bullied by the person they "love and care about"

Like many entitled kids, he is a spoiled kid who knows no boundaries based on his record.

I don't think you can say that the mom didn't try to help him based on the article. She may have tried to help him and it wasn't working so she called the police. No mention of the father in the article--maybe she is struggling to cope as a single mother and the father is the problem. All speculation.