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Old 02-07-2007, 09:58 PM
 
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Are Drugs A Big Problem Here?.......my Husband And I Know They Are All Over But Do Parents Of Students There Feel That It Is A Prominent Issue?....is This A Good School District?.......thanks.
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Old 02-07-2007, 11:09 PM
 
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Are Drugs A Big Problem Here?.......my Husband And I Know They Are All Over But Do Parents Of Students There Feel That It Is A Prominent Issue?....is This A Good School District?.......thanks.
Drugs are a big problem at all the school districts, even the good ones. The wealthier districts that produce better test results because they have more money to put into the school also brings children who have more spending money to purchase drugs. It doesn't matter where you go, there will be drugs and it will be a serious issue.

I hate to be the one to bring the bad news. It's just a fact. Some school districts hide the fact they have a drug problem in their schools. For instance, a few years ago, Mt. Lebanon or Upper St. Claire (I can't remember which one but both are very good school districts) announced a week ahead of time the date they were going to be searching lockers for drugs. Then after the search, they proudly announced that no drugs were found in the school! It's utterly rediculous! Of course there were no drugs after they announced the search ahead of time.

There are children in the best school districts, from the best families, addicted to hard drugs like heroine. Of course, it's not common but it does happen. I know one family that lost their house paying for rehab. And their daughter never kicked the habit.

We encourage our children to be involved in sports and activities, and to get good grades. Then we find out that most of the kids on the sports teams are getting high. Heck, even kids in the honors and advanced placement classes get high. The very things we tell our children to do in order to prevent them from getting involved in drugs exposes them to people who do drugs.

It's a different world today, nothing like when we were growing up. The right sports, grades and school district doesn't guarantee anything when it comes to drugs. The best we can do is hope the 'good-sense' seeds we planted in our children take root and prevents them from making bad choices.

Look for school districts with solid achievement performance and low violence. Sadly, that's the best you can do when it comes to chosing a school district.
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Old 02-08-2007, 01:09 PM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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I agree with Hopes. In my area is the Abington Heights School District, which is located in a posh suburb of Scranton and was supposedly ranked among the "Top 100 Public School Districts in the Nation" by some sort of national publication a few years back. Children here generally come from well-heeled families of attorneys, surgeons, professors, engineers, etc., yet they also had a major drug bust right on school property a few years ago. Just because you live in a community replete with BMWs and inviting street names doesn't necessarily mean that you are immune to supposedly "urban" problems. Abington Heights may be a good school district, but being wealthy should have no bearing on obscuring that drug usage even happens on the poshest cul-de-sacs of Waverly. Drugs are even in my middle-class subdivision here as well. They're everywhere nationwide, whether you're in inner-city Scranton, old-monied Clarks Green, or in "wholesome" Honesdale or Moscow.
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