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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe parents claim it isn't a problem b/c they can't find a police report or have never actually witnessed a drug deal going down. I'm 45 and have never (knowingly) witnessed a drug deal, but I'm convinced it happens. Ridiculous!

Welcome to Lake Wobegon.

I feel like there are only a handful of parents in this County that don't have their heads completely up their asses.

Most were dorks. They never saw the culture. They are now living vicariously through their snowflakes in Dorkvilke who can get away with anything. They are so excited their kids are "popular" because they never were. Fools.

You can't play a playa. This is why my dad was always one step ahead of my siblings and I no matter what shit we tried to pull. My kids don't stand a chance. We will be up in there. Not so for most kids in this town where they rule and can do no wrong in the eyes of their delusional parents.

Yep. Had to try really hard not to say something rude to the parent who claimed this search "creates a hostile environment for our kids". But apparently drug dealers in the parking lot, kids OD'ing is just peachy as long as you don't have to hear about it.

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe parents claim it isn't a problem b/c they can't find a police report or have never actually witnessed a drug deal going down. I'm 45 and have never (knowingly) witnessed a drug deal, but I'm convinced it happens. Ridiculous!

Welcome to Lake Wobegon.

I feel like there are only a handful of parents in this County that don't have their heads completely up their asses.

Most were dorks. They never saw the culture. They are now living vicariously through their snowflakes in Dorkvilke who can get away with anything. They are so excited their kids are "popular" because they never were. Fools.

You can't play a playa. This is why my dad was always one step ahead of my siblings and I no matter what shit we tried to pull. My kids don't stand a chance. We will be up in there. Not so for most kids in this town where they rule and can do no wrong in the eyes of their delusional parents.

I can't believe parents claim it isn't a problem b/c they can't find a police report or have never actually witnessed a drug deal going down. I'm 45 and have never (knowingly) witnessed a drug deal, but I'm convinced it happens. Ridiculous!

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

Hi, Nadine.

Don't be a dick.

Not her. I'm just one of the 1000 or so other Arlington parents who read that board

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

Hi, Nadine.

Don't be a dick.

Maybe vary your language a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

Hi, Nadine.

Don't be a dick.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone who honestly believes this is something new or limited to just APS or YHS and WMS is incredibly naïve.

+1. I've posted about this before, but I went there in the 90s and drug use was widespread then. A few of the "problem children" got quietly pushed off to O'Connell or Gonzaga or other privates before Yorktown could expel them but that didn't stop other kids from using.

This isn't exactly funny, but one of the biggest druggies I can remember from Arlington ended up back in the school system as a teacher probably ten years after college graduation.

I'm quoting myself here, but I actually wonder if this teacher is the one who is speaking up. It wouldn't surprise me, actually. This person would have the knowledge and insight to do so. If so, good for them.

Anonymous wrote:There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

Hi, Nadine.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.

My kids go to elementary school with many of these parents from that area and their lack of cluelessness and unwillingness to believe it's happening or their precious snowflake could ever be involved is just mind-blowing.

My cousin, from a very-educated wealthy family in Greenwich, CT, got addicted at HS. Over $100k later and various treatment centers around the country---she came out the other side.

The population is very similar to what this area is becoming. Lots of kids with lots of $. There is no addiction on either side of our family. "Good" kids with excellent grades that play sports---and yet it happened.

Nobody is immune. The problem is these things they are doing are incredibly addictive after one time. The teenage brain is impulsive.

Anonymous wrote:Anyone who honestly believes this is something new or limited to just APS or YHS and WMS is incredibly naïve.

+1. I've posted about this before, but I went there in the 90s and drug use was widespread then. A few of the "problem children" got quietly pushed off to O'Connell or Gonzaga or other privates before Yorktown could expel them but that didn't stop other kids from using.

This isn't exactly funny, but one of the biggest druggies I can remember from Arlington ended up back in the school system as a teacher probably ten years after college graduation.

Anonymous wrote:There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

THEY ARE THE PROBLEM.

My kids go to elementary school with many of these parents from that area and their lack of cluelessness and unwillingness to believe it's happening or their precious snowflake could ever be involved is just mind-blowing.

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Anonymous wrote:No kidding. There are still WMS parents who either deny b/c they really don't know or deny to protect themselves that there was an OD earlier this year

Or, you know, you're being hysterical. I find it more plausible that it's a small cohort -- that's usually how these things work. Anyway, there aren't going to be any drug dogs at WMS.

B/c they can't smell what jr. stole from the medicine cabinet to sell to his friends?

Drug dogs can be trained to smell just about anything. They probably should bring them to WMS but won't because parents would lose their minds.

I mentioned this to DS this morning. He goes to TJ but has friends at several APS schools and his reaction was "everyone knows Yorktown and Williamsburg are full of drugs. Gunston too." He said he knows of a few kids at TJ who smoke but he thinks it's a small group (at least that was what he was willing to tell me, of course he could be lying since he's 13).

I have no idea how prevalent it really is. It could be a 'small group' as YHS and WMS adminitration says but if that 'small group' are particularly popular or high-profile it can give the whole school community the perception that it's a bigger problem. But ii can also help the problem grow if more kids get the sense that it's the thing to do.

This. If the small cohort is the popular "cool" kids, the problem will be far more widespread than if it's a handful of less influential kids. It just depends who the cohort is. Had this convo with my DH the other day because he has a brother who continues to struggle with substance abuse issues as a middle-aged adult. He got into hard drugs as a teen because the "in-crowd" at his HS were doing heavier drugs (he was not part of this crowd, but it filtered down to him anyway). My DH was about 5 years behind his brother in school, and was lucky that by the time he was in HS the "in-crowd" was not using more than alcohol on occasion.

Yep. In Arlington is full of lemmings. The parents are lemmings and the kids are right there with them.

The biggest thing my father did for all 3 of us--was to teach being independent and doing your own thing. Teach your kid to be a bad-ass and not a p*ssy so worried about what everyone else thinks or is doing.

When kids go through addiction/abuse at a young age it becomes a life-long problem.

There are a few future WMS parents I've seen on another board denying Thierry is a need for this. I feel sorry for them bc their heads are buried deep in the sand.

Heroin is a big problem in our area according to a ACPD narcotics detective who did a presentation to high school/middle school parents/students a few months ago. He also described how two WMS students last Fall ordered illegal drugs from the dark web and had them sent to an Arlington house under construction, so they could pick up their drugs without being detected. Those kids OD'd.


This is good advice:
The prevalence of benzodiazepine abuse is particularly terrifying. Read your children's text messages, master Snapchat, ghost follow them and their friends on Instagram and Twitter. Use Urban dictionary to look up every term you have never heard before... They constantly invent new terms just to throw you off. If you have a preteen or teen and you don't know what it means to "be the plug" or "pop some bars" or what "the party got hot" refers to then you are doing it wrong. That is the kind of advice Connie Skelton should be sharing with her precious snowflake parents. Kids are literally dying! WAKE UP ARLINGTON before we are standing in the WMS parking lot with candles and tears!