Did anyone who is supportive of these broad notices bother to attend any of the multiple opiod awareness events fcps and fairfax county put on last year? They worked so hard to raise awareness. These letters don’t do anything more.

I don’t need the County to tell me about things like drug overdoses and drunk driving accidents, I read the news. The deaths of kids due to drug overdoses and drunk driving and senseless violence makes the news. If you have to rely on the Superintendent sending out an email then you are not doing a very good job of staying informed.

In this case, a student of Justice HS died from an overdose after school and not on school property. I have no idea why I would expect to hear about this from the Superintendent of Schools. The only relation it has to school is that the kid was a student.

I would expect to hear from the Principal of the school if it happened at my kids school.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the letter as being a student who attended Justice HS. This post reads as though it occurred AT Justice HS. Very sad incident none the less but the Title of this post is incorrect.

What does the law require to be reported, I wonder. ANY overdose of a student or only if it occurs at school? I would think the latter only, but who knows.

Republican Governor Glen Youngkin passed a law requiring county school systems to notify parents of every drug overdose.

Prior administrations failed to notify, and just astro-turfed the issue so parents would not know.

THANK YOU, Governor Youngkin, for taking steps to help school children and parents in the Commonwealth.

That isn't what happened. Parents of the school the kids attended were notified. For some reason people think they have a right to know what goes on in every single school in the district they attend. So now we get this vague EO that does nothing. How did this EO improve your life? What are you doing differently due to this EO. Were you not planning to talk to your kids about drugs until this school told you they existed and were deadly? Can you only talk to your kids if the government lets you know something is going on?

Are you planning on helping the families who have lost kids or who have kids struggling with addiction. PLEASE tell me how this improved your parenting or helped the children struggling with addiction.

I cannot tell if you just enjoy being on a soap box or you are just ignorant. Of course notices like this prompt parents to have conversations with their kids. And it helps kids have conversations with their parents. No information was given out. And yes, it helps people be more proactive with talking to their kids. Maybe it does not impact you at all, but it helps others. It might even safe a life.

Anonymous wrote:Justice parents were notified that a student had died, no mention of the cause until the general notification county wide.

The issue is county wide, there are kids OD'ing in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun...

I'm sure the school admins know who the dealers are but they don't call the police to arrest the kids at the school. Time to lock them up.

But if the police/county did that, there could be a disparate impact on students of color, don’t you agree?

Anonymous wrote: But why do we have a right to know. Why does that family have to tell thousands of people this horrible thing that happened to their kid. If my kid died of an overdose I wouldn't want a thousands upon thousands of people who didn't know us meowing and judging and shaming me and my kid (because that is what happens). Why should the community trump the individual rights of the family experiencing the loss..

Meowing = knowing

But why do we have a right to know. Why does that family have to tell thousands of people this horrible thing that happened to their kid. If my kid died of an overdose I wouldn't want a thousands upon thousands of people who didn't know us meowing and judging and shaming me and my kid (because that is what happens). Why should the community trump the individual rights of the family experiencing the loss..

Justice parents were notified that a student had died, no mention of the cause until the general notification county wide.

The issue is county wide, there are kids OD'ing in Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun...

I'm sure the school admins know who the dealers are but they don't call the police to arrest the kids at the school. Time to lock them up.

I'm all for requiring schools to notify parents about overdoses, non-fatal and fatal, that occur at school. And not the the parents at the school, but the entire county.

But requiring schools to notify everyone even if the overdose happened off school grounds, and at the kids' home in this case it seems, really seems like overreach on parental rights.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the letter as being a student who attended Justice HS. This post reads as though it occurred AT Justice HS. Very sad incident none the less but the Title of this post is incorrect.

What does the law require to be reported, I wonder. ANY overdose of a student or only if it occurs at school? I would think the latter only, but who knows.

Republican Governor Glen Youngkin passed a law requiring county school systems to notify parents of every drug overdose.

Prior administrations failed to notify, and just astro-turfed the issue so parents would not know.

THANK YOU, Governor Youngkin, for taking steps to help school children and parents in the Commonwealth.

That isn't what happened. Parents of the school the kids attended were notified. For some reason people think they have a right to know what goes on in every single school in the district they attend. So now we get this vague EO that does nothing. How did this EO improve your life? What are you doing differently due to this EO. Were you not planning to talk to your kids about drugs until this school told you they existed and were deadly? Can you only talk to your kids if the government lets you know something is going on?

Are you planning on helping the families who have lost kids or who have kids struggling with addiction. PLEASE tell me how this improved your parenting or helped the children struggling with addiction.

Agree; we need to go back to covering up these incidents and hiding the facts from parents; gov. Youngkin was wrong!

The parents of the students at the school it happened at WERE notified. What purpose does it serve to notify parents of a different school who likely know no one at the the school where the student went, who don't know the student and have nothing to do with and will have nothing to do with that student population of that school what happened at the school..

Everyone just keeps telling me "parents have a right to know! Stop hiding things!" But no one has told me what purpose it serves. What does it change? How does it help anything?

As far as I can see the only purpose it serves is to satisfy public curiosity and erode trust in public education. Its not like private schools are announcing overdoses and yes, they happen there too.

REPUBLICANS: Stop telling parents when this happens!!

It should stay secret.

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Anonymous wrote:I read the letter as being a student who attended Justice HS. This post reads as though it occurred AT Justice HS. Very sad incident none the less but the Title of this post is incorrect.

What does the law require to be reported, I wonder. ANY overdose of a student or only if it occurs at school? I would think the latter only, but who knows.

Republican Governor Glen Youngkin passed a law requiring county school systems to notify parents of every drug overdose.

Prior administrations failed to notify, and just astro-turfed the issue so parents would not know.

THANK YOU, Governor Youngkin, for taking steps to help school children and parents in the Commonwealth.

That isn't what happened. Parents of the school the kids attended were notified. For some reason people think they have a right to know what goes on in every single school in the district they attend. So now we get this vague EO that does nothing. How did this EO improve your life? What are you doing differently due to this EO. Were you not planning to talk to your kids about drugs until this school told you they existed and were deadly? Can you only talk to your kids if the government lets you know something is going on?

Are you planning on helping the families who have lost kids or who have kids struggling with addiction. PLEASE tell me how this improved your parenting or helped the children struggling with addiction.

Agree; we need to go back to covering up these incidents and hiding the facts from parents; gov. Youngkin was wrong!

Anonymous wrote:I read the letter as being a student who attended Justice HS. This post reads as though it occurred AT Justice HS. Very sad incident none the less but the Title of this post is incorrect.

Correct. Did not happen AT Justice.

https://fcpdnews.wordpress.com/2023/12/06/detectives-investigating-teenage-overdose-death-at-seven-corners-home/

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Anonymous wrote:I read the letter as being a student who attended Justice HS. This post reads as though it occurred AT Justice HS. Very sad incident none the less but the Title of this post is incorrect.

What does the law require to be reported, I wonder. ANY overdose of a student or only if it occurs at school? I would think the latter only, but who knows.

Republican Governor Glen Youngkin passed a law requiring county school systems to notify parents of every drug overdose.

Prior administrations failed to notify, and just astro-turfed the issue so parents would not know.

THANK YOU, Governor Youngkin, for taking steps to help school children and parents in the Commonwealth.

Your head is buried in the sand if you didn't think you need to talk to your kids about drugs and drinking until after the EO was passed. ODs, drunk driving, and teen pregnancies have been a thing for an awful long time. Drunk Driving was the big issue at my school in the 80's, 5 kids were killed in a month time span in the neighboring town. I had classmates who were suspended for being passed out drunk at high school dances. Drugs were present but it was more weed than anything.

The opioid crisis has been a known issue for at least the last 15 years. Fentanyl has made the opioid crisis even more severe. Now you have weed and counterfeit prescription drugs that are laced with fentanyl, which is why we are seeing the ODs. Enough people are ODing that you can buy Narcan at the grocery store and kids are allowed to carry it at school. They can't carry advil but they can carry narcan.

I don't need Youngkin's EO because I watch the news and understand that teens experiment. The difference is that experimenting today is far different then experimenting when I was in the 80's. The drugs are stronger and the lacing of drugs with deadly substances is far more prevalent.

It says more about you that you needed these emails then anything.

Principal twitter is making it about her

Anonymous wrote:Way back when there was a kid at Robinson who overdosed on drugs, but she lived and was fine. The police followed up and arrested all of the drug dealers at the school, a bunch of them did jail time. Sure would be nice to see that happen at Justice.

Going back to this, those dealers went straight from high school to jail for YEARS, and no one even died. For overdoses where kids are dying why aren't the cops going in and locking up the dealers for long enough sentences to scare the crap out of anyone else thinking about selling drugs in schools?