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Anonymous wrote:The first week of school at GDS my kid was asked if he wanted to vape during lunch. He said no. But it is there.

I find this hard to believe.

So it's quite open?

Then you are not paying attention.

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Why would the school share that with the parents?

I would hope the school would notify parents of kids on the list. It's a list of known druggies and pushers. Best to get on top of that for most schools. Or brush it under the rug for others.

No school is sharing the list. Invasion of privacy. They could be sued. That would be a disaster.

Of course they can't share the list of druggies. But they can, and should, state that they found X students were buying drugs and that is against school policy and they will fix the matter by doing A and B and C.

Instead, they tried to hide it under the rug?

(Parents could sue the school for breach of contract if not notified, and even report the matter to the police)

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Why would the school share that with the parents?

I would hope the school would notify parents of kids on the list. It's a list of known druggies and pushers. Best to get on top of that for most schools. Or brush it under the rug for others.

No school is sharing the list. Invasion of privacy. They could be sued. That would be a disaster.

Of course they can't share the list of druggies. But they can, and should, state that they found X students were buying drugs and that is against school policy and they will fix the matter by doing A and B and C.

Instead, they tried to hide it under the rug?

Anonymous wrote:The first week of school at GDS my kid was asked if he wanted to vape during lunch. He said no. But it is there.

I find this hard to believe.

So it's quite open?

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Why would the school share that with the parents?

I would hope the school would notify parents of kids on the list. It's a list of known druggies and pushers. Best to get on top of that for most schools. Or brush it under the rug for others.

No school is sharing the list. Invasion of privacy. They could be sued. That would be a disaster.

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Why would the school share that with the parents?

I would hope the school would notify parents of kids on the list. It's a list of known druggies and pushers. Best to get on top of that for most schools. Or brush it under the rug for others.

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Why would the school share that with the parents?

Because the first step to solve a problem is to acknowledge it?

It is quite different if the student was selling drugs to just 3 fellow students than, say, to 50.

Anonymous wrote:The first week of school at GDS my kid was asked if he wanted to vape during lunch. He said no. But it is there.

You keep repeating this.

My private school DS got vape weed from a public school friend so not sure that you can't control everything...

The first week of school at GDS my kid was asked if he wanted to vape during lunch. He said no. But it is there.

^I would hope if their kid was on the list they were notified. I did not say show them everyone else’s name on the list—just their kid.

If their kid is not on the list, then it’s a privacy issue to publicize it/show it to them. I would expect a general letter/email explaining the situation to the student body (no names, no list) and what they plan to do as well as school policy.

That’s what I would do if I were in charge.

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Why would the school share that with the parents?

More sex than drugs going on.

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Anonymous wrote:big exaggeration to say there is a problem at sidwell. have heard of some kids using weed, but not that many in 9th and 10th. don’t know much about 11th and 12th. haven’t heard about any other drugs.

This is the situation at GDS as well. Anyone claiming GDS has a bigger drug problem is uninformed. My kid has a fairly social group of friends and in 9th-10th no one is using hard drugs but I've heard that some kids have smoked weed. Some kids drink too. Neither seems to be that common (and I personally don't consider one worse than the other). Have never heard of any parents giving their kids weed but as it's legal in DC I'm sure some parents have it at home and kids find it. I have heard of a couple of parties where parents were home and alcohol was present. These were held by students from several different schools. Not sure if the parents knew or not!

How many kids were listed in the excelsheet of the GDS student-dealer?

Student-dealer? Spreadsheet? Could you be a little bit more specific

About 3 years ago a student was found to be dealing drugs to other students. He was expelled and yes, the smoking gun was an excel spreadsheet.

How many students appeared in the spreadsheet?

I'm guessing that, if he kept one to begin with, there must have been quite a number of kids involved.

No one knows? Did the school not share this with parents?

Drugs are everywhere but more kids in public so it looks worse. I disagree about parents who hover have more druggy kids in private. My experience is the parents who have no clue what is going on have kids who experiment and that includes parents who say their kids would never be curious. I never got into drugs because my parents were involved and had many up front conversations about what happens if you get involved with drugs even once. Also parents are fooling themselves if they do not think marijuana is not a gateway drug. Kids who try marijuana move on to other drugs. The other point is kids who are not in sports or other activities in hs have too much free time. Free time is not your friend when it comes
to drugs. Resist the urge to allow them to quit things thinking they will be doing more homework. Also resist urge to let them drop family activities and trips. No teens should be home by themselves for weekends.