Really what your kids are doing at school

Arizona_928 · 03-10-2009, 10:06 PM

my mum works at a elementary school, and well at the school 6 students got arrested today "7th-8th graders" for selling pot to the elementary kids. mostly to the 5th-8th grade student body. i'm not sure what they have been charged with, but a new teacher saw it going down during recess. The ringleader's mom is the school nurse at the school, and a active member of the PTA...
I would expect this from HS students, but from 5th and 6th graders?

what is this world coming to?

Laneco · 03-10-2009, 10:09 PM

Triple-C is pretty big in that age group too...

The bad part is it took the new teacher to notice it. Rather begs the question, what exactly were the existing teachers doing? Avoiding? They are the ones who know all the kids... Sounds like a don't look don't tell kind of thing.

angela

mudman · 03-11-2009, 05:07 AM

Angela, what is triple-c?

God I feel old now, and I'm one of the youngest parents at my kid's school. Some of the teachers were there when I attended!

I'm going to take three vitaminC pills to see if I get a buzz...

livi · 03-11-2009, 05:19 AM

Lends itself well as a comment in the ongoing legalization debate..

Laneco · 03-11-2009, 05:20 AM

It's cold/cough medications that contain dextromethophan hydrobromide. An over dose gives the kids a hallucinatory high. In overdose quantities it can also cause other neat-o things like brain damage but hey, what good high doesn't?

Very accessible for young kids and legal to have though all meds are restricted at school. Worst of all, it's probably in your medicine cabinet...

angela

poorsche930 · 07:32 AM

So what's changed? I'm 31 and grew up in an upper middle class area, and drugs are more rampant when kids parents have money. One of my acquaintances first ate acid in third grade. When I lived in the city, or a semi rural area, the kids sold drugs to get money. Suburbia, nice houses and cars, private schools, all that means is the kids have disposable $ from mommy or daddy, everything taken care in life, and some of them get bored. It's a fact, close your eyes to it if you want.

Christien · Christien's Garage

Ryan's story sounds very familiar. I'm 33, so I was in grade 8 in 1988. I didn't know it at the time, but drugs were being sold and consumed at my elementary school, which was in a very nice neighbourhood in a medium-size, white collar, conservative city. No projects, no inner city kids, all just kids from (mostly) upper middle class families.

Nothing new...

JavaBrewer · JavaBrewer's Garage

+1 Nothing new. Kids were smoking and doing drugs in middle school ('76-'77). In my Catholic H.S. kids were doing lines on their desk.

Honestly I think the schools (at least here) have really cracked down. My son attends a newer middle school located in an nicer community and they have an incredible amount of restrictions. If a kid throws a punch on or within 2 city blocks of campus they are immediately suspended and the police are involved. Two times and they are expelled. The local elementary school is equally well managed though not as draconian with the rules. In a couple years I will see how the H.S handles it.

HardDrive · 03-11-2009, 07:56 AM

I went to public schools for middle school, and drugs were readily available. I went to a Catholic high school, and there were still drugs, but it was far more under control. The parents were much more involved, and kids didn't have the time and space to go really off the deep end. Not to say we didn't smoke some pot, we did.....

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

OK, I did try it but I never inhaled

I'm with the guyz "same 'o same 'o"
When is the gubmint gonna lighten up on the pot smokers already?
Not that elementary school is the place or time, but this has been going on since my Uncle was doing it.

David · David's Garage

I'm 41 and this doesn't surprise me. The same stuff was happening 30 years ago.

pwd72s · 03-11-2009, 10:58 AM

Gotta clue ya...no drugs in our high school...class of '61. Lots of booze tho...

911Rob · 911Rob's Garage

Class of '61?

What would've been the option for drugs then? LSD.
I've got about 15 Uncles from that generation; some were jocks and some were tuff guys, what were you pwd?

as for the booze, they ALL had mobile bars in their cars at that time.

CJFusco · CJFusco's Garage

I think these kinds of things have ALWAYS gone on; I just think that they get reported to the public more often nowadays, so it just SEEMS like it's a recent problem.

Zeke · 03-11-2009, 02:20 PM

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Originally Posted by 911Rob

Class of '61?

What would've been the option for drugs then? LSD.

LSD was not well known in '61. MaryJ was not mainstream. Mostly hard asses did that at the time, not your typical homecoming queen. Lots of beer and some cheap wine. Anyone remember Annie Greensprings? T-bird with a new label.

on2wheels52 · on2wheels52's Garage

"class of '61. Lots of booze tho"

I thought I was old. Class of '71 but was a small midwest town, drugs didn't show up until few years later (trust me, I would have known if they were around). But I was a 4 year Budweiser letterman (it was that kind of town).
I'm glad I got that faze out of the way in my teens.
Jim