Drugs/Alcohol?

FizzyIzzy
Fri, 02 Oct 2015 22:05:56 +0000

So I am the parent of a current freshman girl and I had these worries myself. What my daughter has found is that while drugs and alcohol are present, she thinks they are not especially more prevalent than at her boarding school or at her friends’ suburban and urban pubic and private high schools. There is also no pressure to do drugs/drink so some do, some don’t. Of course there are some YOLO freshman for whom this is their first time away from home… she is already seeing some of that behaviour (during the August L&T) taper off, except for a very few kids who probably won’t finish the year (she thinks). Security and peer counselors do pay attention and do warn students as needed.

She WISHES that it were a NON-(cigarette) SMOKING campus, but there seems to be even less of that than last year. We are from CA and from an area where almost no one smokes so to us the prevalance of smoking here on the East in general is kind of shocking/disgusting.