Anonymous wrote:Park View Parent, have you thought of using special permission to send your child to a different high school? If not, why not?

This problem isn’t focused just at PVHS. It’s a nationwide issue. Just today on WTOP there was an article about opioids in Montgomery County teens: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2023/11/treatment-prevention-action-montgomery-county-town-hall-on-the-opioid-crisis-generates-suggested-solutions/

My friends’ kids at more affluent schools in Loudoun report kids vaping cannabis in the bathrooms and taking other drugs. While the overdoses at Park View certainly show there is drug use (and someone dealing a lethal fentanyl laced drug) there, it’s happening at high schools everywhere.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

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.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately it’s not just Park View. The superintendent sent out an email yesterday stating that this school year there have been ten suspected overdoses across six high schools, including Briar Woods and Broad Run which are among the top rated schools within Loudoun.

Yeah, if anyone thinks this is only a problem at "poor" schools, they're kidding themselves.

For real. Cross contamination is a huge problem now. Fentanyl is in everything. You think you're buying cocaine or Xanax. Nope. Fent.

Really would stress to kids that this is a terrible time for any kind of drug experimentation. We're losing more than a 100,000 people a year to this. It's dangerous out there.

more from Serotkin's page

"When Dr. Spence was made aware of the trend of suspected overdoses, both in and out of school at Park View, a task force was assembled the next day and information and resources went out to families before students were back in school on Wednesday. I support LCPS’ efforts to tackle this complex community issue, but I also recognize that schools cannot do it alone."

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."

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Anonymous wrote:The sheriff is up for re-election next week. The timing of these stories is not coincidental.

Exactly this. The sheriff also claimed they saved the day when in fact they didn't.

The sheriff’s role in the sexual assaults at schools a couple of years ago was scandalous.

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Anonymous wrote:That is so sad.
The school is largely low income and Hispanic. These schools need more resources.
My kids attend a school with similar demographics, and those kids could use so much more help in life than they are getting.

Park View was solid middle class school in 90's. Due to overwhelming immigration it has gone downhill. Directly related to the immigration pushed by both republicans and democrats.

none of the democrats ever show up at these schools but they continue to push open borders.

Uh, Republicans don't push immigration.

Many do, however, push —and employ — cheap labor. Let that spin for a bit until the correlation hits.

Republican here who has actually housed an undocumented immigrant who had just crossed the border several days prior that we stumbled upon. He has worked steadily for the past 6 months. The first two jobs my sister got would only hire him for 3 days and pay cash since he did not have his social. Both places told my sister they want him back once he has his social. ONe was a brewery and one was a grocery store. Third place he worked for a number of months was a sandwich shop. The owners really liked him but they sold the business. The owners of the third place found him a job at his fourth place which is a breakfast restaurant. Nine months after crossing the Rio Grande he has his social so now he is at his 5th job that would only hire him with a social. The fifth job also supplies housing.

This is in a Dem city. All the places that hired him were were small businesses of unknown political persuasion. Two would only pay cash for 3 days of work what they can legally do. The fifth job would not hire him until he had his social.

So, how many illegal immigrants have you supplied housing for? How many have you found jobs for?

Going rate for unskilled jobs in this town is $20 per hour that is paid cash or paid legal. I don't call that cheap labor.

Let that spin in your head.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

Utter hogwash.

Park View Parent, have you thought of using special permission to send your child to a different high school? If not, why not?

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Anonymous wrote:That is so sad.
The school is largely low income and Hispanic. These schools need more resources.
My kids attend a school with similar demographics, and those kids could use so much more help in life than they are getting.

Park View was solid middle class school in 90's. Due to overwhelming immigration it has gone downhill. Directly related to the immigration pushed by both republicans and democrats.

none of the democrats ever show up at these schools but they continue to push open borders.

Uh, Republicans don't push immigration.

True they just push their religion on everyone.

Most of the undocumented immigrants are Catholic or evangelical Christian.

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Anonymous wrote: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.

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.

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

Anonymous wrote:The sheriff is up for re-election next week. The timing of these stories is not coincidental.

Exactly this. The sheriff also claimed they saved the day when in fact they didn't.

Anonymous wrote:Someone should file a FOiA for emails between Chapman and campaign types on this

I'm not worried about it at all. Let's not act like the other side doesn't take every advantage they can.

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Anonymous wrote:Unfortunately it’s not just Park View. The superintendent sent out an email yesterday stating that this school year there have been ten suspected overdoses across six high schools, including Briar Woods and Broad Run which are among the top rated schools within Loudoun.

please post the email.

https://www.lcps.org/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&ModuleInstanceID=372827&ViewID=7b97f7ed-8e5e-4120-848f-a8b4987d588f&RenderLoc=0&FlexDataID=470480&PageID=253365

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Anonymous wrote:That is so sad.
The school is largely low income and Hispanic. These schools need more resources.
My kids attend a school with similar demographics, and those kids could use so much more help in life than they are getting.

Park View was solid middle class school in 90's. Due to overwhelming immigration it has gone downhill. Directly related to the immigration pushed by both republicans and democrats.

none of the democrats ever show up at these schools but they continue to push open borders.

Wow! So you personally go to all of these schools, and your super power allows you to discern the political affiliation of all of the parents who “ever show up at these schools” and all of the ones who don’t? Since the last bit is a MAGA fantasy, I guess your super powers have limits.