high school help

[SBCmetroguy]

Originally Posted by sdpartin1

yes, I heard about this when my daughter was there and I have to reply with... yes its there.....and everywhere, not just at haughton, airline also,parkway,northwood, and especially the private schools, and not to mention the athletic teams with all of the above....Haughton is not isolated, just smaller, so not as easy to "drown" out if your a meth head..alot of kids are doing it to keep up. The best of students at all schools do it, and some dont....the pressure is high on kids..harder and more curriculum, athletic scholarships....and so on. Our kids have to have the fortitude to say no..because if you try to shelter them to a school with no drugs, there isnt one..so Ill take the school with the most personal attention.. I knew some of the student pot heads, my daughter and you wont believe this,could handle being around them and saying no....now your saying to yourself..."right, I bet, " we have had in our family someone with a prior drug problem and it hurt her to see this so bad...she couldnt even fathom doing them. Granted she didnt run with them all the time she could still be exposed and say no..Haughton is a good school with good teachers and councelors, rest easy if you have your child going there. They are just as safe there as they are at any high school.

I absolutely believe you. When I was at Airline, I had marijuana and cocaine all around me and I never did try it. And that said, you have a good point. I was just very scared after my friend moved there and went the meth route, but honestly had he stayed at Airline I know the chances are there that he might have fallen into other things there as well (for example, cocaine). I don't know a single one of my friends who didn't do drugs, but I never did. Of course I now know as an adult that my having Asperger's was my reason for this, since I didn't care what the other kids were doing and peer pressure affect me like it seemed to do everyone else.

[hank0604]

Airline has it's drug problem, for sure. Because of the relative wealth of kids who attend Airline compared to other Bossier schools, cocaine is kind of big there, and steroids are very common on the football team (at least that was the case when I was there). But I would take my chances sending my kid Airline over Haughton. The quality of education at Airline is very good, class sizes are good (honors classes generally about 20 kids per class), and the administration there run the school like Nazis running a concentration camp. When I was a student there, I thought that was a bad thing, but looking back now it was probably a really good idea.

Your kid will get exposed to drugs no matter where he goes to school. In fact, he probably already has been exposed to it at the middle school level. The question now becomes, how good of an education are you looking for, and what else do you want to expose him to while in school? I grew up in Dogwood, so I knew a lot of people that went to Haughton, even though I went to Airline, and I have to say that I have seen some of the most unsavory characters in my life among the ranks of Haughton High.

Send the kid to Airline, and hope he cliques up with a group of the Abercrombie kids from North Bossier neighborhoods. Sure, you'll have to keep a close eye on him for drug use, because a lot of those kids use, but they also have generally good grades and a desire to learn and succeed, as opposed to the trash that runs around Haughton.

Sorry if I'm offending anyone from Haughton, but I just had one to many childhood friends go to school there and turn out to be redneck white trash.