Hah, I forgot about baiting the French in that WWII thread...
My wife works at a low socio-economic status school. They're not using directly, no they're not stoned to the 'whoa, dude' level, it's more of a general 'grogginess' that kind of goes away late in the morning. It's definitely 'anec-data' of the finest sort, but it's something the teachers notice and comment on.
What I don't understand is why no one ever thinks that suddenly 'legalizing' a drug that produces a docile population is somehow more ominous than the previous gov't action to suppress it.
How does she differentiate between those kids and the ones that simply have a biological clock mis-matched with school? Do they all definitely smell of the smoke?
I ask mostly because I could have been that kid. I'm that adult. I smoke now, but my parents didn't and I didn't start while I was in school. My mother fought to get me awake for years: I wouldn't even wake up early for Santa Clause presents. Seriously, I chose to sleep and wait to open them until after we went to Grandma's house.
Believe me, there are plenty of issues that lead to these kids being groggy- but the faculty also do their best to keep up on who's Mom has a new boyfriend, who's living out of their car, who shows up at school at 6:30 cause that's when the parents leave for work. It's a combination of intrusive, frustrating, and necessary to make sense of what's going on in their lives and how that gets brought into school.
When we talk legalization on these sites it's usually from a middle class view of harmless recreation, but people who are irresponsible about other things aren't likely to be fastidious in their smoking habits either.
Same boat here. My mom had me start drinking coffee in like the 5th or 6th grade because I told her I felt physically ill for the first 3 hours of school every day.
My wife works at a low socio-economic status school. They're not using directly, no they're not stoned to the 'whoa, dude' level, it's more of a general 'grogginess' that kind of goes away late in the morning. It's definitely 'anec-data' of the finest sort, but it's something the teachers notice and comment on.
What I don't understand is why no one ever thinks that suddenly 'legalizing' a drug that produces a docile population is somehow more ominous than the previous gov't action to suppress it.