[wintertime]

Even though this is a major news story in one of the nation's leading newspapers, parents of children in these schools will still insist that it isn't happening in their child's classroom, grade, or circle of friends. These government schools will be full to the brim with kids on Tuesday morning.

In surveys for 2006-07, about half of Churchill and Whitman students indicated that drugs -- the survey didn't specify which -- were a problem at their schools.

The main suppliers for teens are other teens, according to two former dealers, several student users and Grapes, the detective. The students talk about pot deals at school, Grapes said, but the transactions tend to occur off campus, out of view of school security officers and cameras.

Is this the "real" world socialization that homeschoolers are missing? How many adults here on Free Republic are working in environments where drug dealing arrangements are commonly going on around them? An adult has the freedom to quit the job and find a safer and more wholesome work situation. Kids though are under police threat to be in this government school, unless their parents can ransom them with private school tuition or homeschooling.

Finally, the schools reported in this article are among the highest achieving in the nation. These government schools would be considered the nation's most successful, yet, drugs are a problem in these schools. I fully expect there will be Freepers soon insisting that their child's school doesn't have this problem.

Why would any rational parent send their child to one of these Montgomery government schools? Maybe someone could explain this to me.

If these Montgomery government schools are among the best in the nation, what's going on in average government schools?

[wintertime]

Another Reason to Homeschool.

[NativeNewYorker]

Kids though are under police threat to be in this government school, unless their parents can ransom them with private school tuition or homeschooling.

Nicely put.

[underground]

Don’t wanna burst any bubbles here, but the homeschooled kid in my neighborhood used to come smoke with us in the woods in the afternoon

[metmom]

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

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[Clintonfatigued]

You find the same thing in prisons, which schools bear some resemblance to. IMHO, the ill effects of 50 minutes of sitting down for boring lessons followed by 10 minutes of going to another class to 50 minutes of sitting down for boring classes is the problem. The pot provides relief from the stress and monotony.

Why do we need high school, anyway?