Arlington Families - can we all just come together and work on a solution for the drug problem in our schools? I know that's an impossible task to do so through DCUM because everyone starts talking about race and Fairfax v. Arlington and other irrelevant things.

1) If you have no interest in Arlington (you live in Fairfax), then why are you even reading this thread? Nothing better to do? I don't care about Fairfax. We are discussing Arlington here.
2) Stop bringing up race - it doesn't matter if your family is PURPLE - this is not about race, this is about drugs.
3) Yorktown, Schmorktown, Williamsgerg, Planet Earth School - stop pointing fingers to which school. Who cares which school?

The problem is drugs in all schools throughout Arlington.

If we can't rationally come up with a solution to help the kids stay away from drugs, then that's a big problem.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Seriously. You can't imagine the amount of drugs and alcohol circulating my prep school in the 80's. Lot's of pearl clutching on these boards.

Yeah, blah, blah, blah, we all drank and got high in high school - you know what, it's parents like you who are the problem.

These kids aren't the dropout stoners - these are student council leaders, varsity athletes, top GPAs who are openly getting drunk and high at noon on Saturday at an elementary school field. And because their parents are like you - aw, let the kids be kids, get me another beer honey - they feel like they can brazenly get trashed while the 9-year-olds are finishing up their Saturday soccer game. Good luck explaining to your elementary schooler why the nice girl who babysits her is passed out on the sidewalk.

EXCUSE ME???? "we all drank and got high in high school." That is disgusting and not true. It does appear that the problem are the parents who don't care if there kids get drunk. Shameful.

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Wisconsin when the drinking age was 18. The seniors had open keggers in city parks. God, I can't stand the DMV.

And the alcohol in the beer was probably 3.2%. I grew up in Ohio, so I know what you're talking about.

Maybe for you pansies in OH (and CO and MN), but not WI. 3.2 is sacrilege.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Makes me nervious about what happens when they redo the middle school boundaries. I'm quite worried we'll get rezoned from a S Arlington middle school to the new middle school. I don't want my kid in middle school with Williamsburg kids.

Give it a fucking break. Why are you so persistant have North Arlington kids being moved into Kenmore? Aren't you worried that those heathens with corrupt your poor innocent child?

You really can't read. At all. FYI - the joke was about how unhappy I'd be if my future Jefferson kids got rezoned to the posh new middle school they are building at the old HB site. The joke is that they'd be rezoned and end up in school with the Williamsburg drug addicts instead.

Not really sure what else you are talking about.

Some joke... you're just f***ing hilarious.

It is a funny joke. Read the boundary thread?

How is it a funny joke? It's too obvious in an attempt to be contrarian.

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Wisconsin when the drinking age was 18. The seniors had open keggers in city parks. God, I can't stand the DMV.

And the alcohol in the beer was probably 3.2%. I grew up in Ohio, so I know what you're talking about.

Anonymous wrote:One of the best things about Williamsburg and Ytown was that the blacks and whites used drugs together, drank together, etc. Now it seems like the whites are worried its the blacks who are causing the problem, when that couldnt be further from the truth.

Don't start that crap. Everyone knows that is not the case.

One of the best things about Williamsburg and Ytown was that the blacks and whites used drugs together, drank together, etc. Now it seems like the whites are worried its the blacks who are causing the problem, when that couldnt be further from the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Makes me nervious about what happens when they redo the middle school boundaries. I'm quite worried we'll get rezoned from a S Arlington middle school to the new middle school. I don't want my kid in middle school with Williamsburg kids.

Give it a fucking break. Why are you so persistant have North Arlington kids being moved into Kenmore? Aren't you worried that those heathens with corrupt your poor innocent child?

You really can't read. At all. FYI - the joke was about how unhappy I'd be if my future Jefferson kids got rezoned to the posh new middle school they are building at the old HB site. The joke is that they'd be rezoned and end up in school with the Williamsburg drug addicts instead.

Not really sure what else you are talking about.

Some joke... you're just f***ing hilarious.

It is a funny joke. Read the boundary thread?

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Wisconsin when the drinking age was 18. The seniors had open keggers in city parks. God, I can't stand the DMV.

Well, that explains why all my relatives in Wisconsin thought it was a good idea to vote for Donald Trump.

Why? Did he promise to MAPFA (make American parks fun again?)

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Wisconsin when the drinking age was 18. The seniors had open keggers in city parks. God, I can't stand the DMV.

Well, that explains why all my relatives in Wisconsin thought it was a good idea to vote for Donald Trump.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Seriously. You can't imagine the amount of drugs and alcohol circulating my prep school in the 80's. Lot's of pearl clutching on these boards.

Yeah, blah, blah, blah, we all drank and got high in high school - you know what, it's parents like you who are the problem.

These kids aren't the dropout stoners - these are student council leaders, varsity athletes, top GPAs who are openly getting drunk and high at noon on Saturday at an elementary school field. And because their parents are like you - aw, let the kids be kids, get me another beer honey - they feel like they can brazenly get trashed while the 9-year-olds are finishing up their Saturday soccer game. Good luck explaining to your elementary schooler why the nice girl who babysits her is passed out on the sidewalk.

Did you go to high school? Do you really think your varsity athletes and top GPAs didn't drink?

Were you drinking and getting high when you were 14 or 15 years old at noon on Saturday? On the elementary school field in your quiet suburb? Were 2 of your friends hospitalized? Did someone get arrested? Did you scream "My dad's going to fix this" as you were being put in the police car?

I went to Williamsburg and YHS (and Jamestown before that, fwiw). I'm not sure about the elementary school field, but "good" kids who were top athletes and excellent students were doing this. I saw friends get taken to the hospital, arrested, and more than a few quietly relocated to private schools afterward because their dads did, in fact, fix it. Thinking that the only kids doing this are dropout stoners is a very naive view.

And I had friends that were sent to multiple private schools because they kept getting caught. One top prep school was the epicenter of a cocaine smuggling ring. Wealthy kid became a drug kingpin, flying to South America and bringing back pounds of coke. so yeah, this happens everywhere in varying degrees. So keep your eyes open, be involved in your kids' lives, pay attention to their friends and parent the best you can.

Ha ha, was this a prep school that begins with "C" and is in New England? If so, that incident happened before my time in APS but a friend's family knew that kid's family.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Makes me nervious about what happens when they redo the middle school boundaries. I'm quite worried we'll get rezoned from a S Arlington middle school to the new middle school. I don't want my kid in middle school with Williamsburg kids.

Give it a fucking break. Why are you so persistant have North Arlington kids being moved into Kenmore? Aren't you worried that those heathens with corrupt your poor innocent child?

You really can't read. At all. FYI - the joke was about how unhappy I'd be if my future Jefferson kids got rezoned to the posh new middle school they are building at the old HB site. The joke is that they'd be rezoned and end up in school with the Williamsburg drug addicts instead.

Not really sure what else you are talking about.

Some joke... you're just f***ing hilarious.

I don't know why anyone would be less concerned at another school. I'm a parent of students in APS and I'd have the same level of concern regardless of what high school they attended. The facts seem to point to more drug use at Yorktown, currently, so that's why there is more concern there.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington has a parent problem- from middle school through high school. Kids at Williamsburg and Yorktown have been drinking and doing lots of drugs since long before I was there in the mid-1980’s and did lots of both. It was never “a problem” until today’s naive parents labeled it as such.kids have been drinking and doing drugs since the first high scool ever opened and its not going to Change.

Makes me nervious about what happens when they redo the middle school boundaries. I'm quite worried we'll get rezoned from a S Arlington middle school to the new middle school. I don't want my kid in middle school with Williamsburg kids.

Give it a fucking break. Why are you so persistant have North Arlington kids being moved into Kenmore? Aren't you worried that those heathens with corrupt your poor innocent child?

You really can't read. At all. FYI - the joke was about how unhappy I'd be if my future Jefferson kids got rezoned to the posh new middle school they are building at the old HB site. The joke is that they'd be rezoned and end up in school with the Williamsburg drug addicts instead.

Not really sure what else you are talking about.

I grew up in Wisconsin when the drinking age was 18. The seniors had open keggers in city parks. God, I can't stand the DMV.