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I know, I know, I should just worry about my own kids and not feel frustrated by the amount of drug use and cigarette smoking that happens on K-12 school campuses.  As long as my kids don’t do it, it is the school administration’s problem, isn’t it?

Well, I can’t just let it go.  Sorry.  When I drive up to my local high school to pick up my daughter and there are literally dozens of kids smoking right next to the “This is a smoke free campus” sign, it ticks me off.  Aren’t those teachers walking right past the kids?  Why didn’t they say something, or at least shake their fingers at the kids?  But, they just ignored it.

I asked my daughter and she says the teachers “Don’t care” about it.  The teachers actually say that they are not paid to be babysitters.  Wow.

And, cigarettes are not the only thing smoked on campus.  During rallys when the kids are not really required to be at the rally but almost all of the teachers are at the rally, there are many kids that hang out “behind the buildings” to get high.  How do I know this?  My daughter told me.  I did make the classic parent mistake of saying “Why don’t you report them?”.  I got quite the look for that question and I remembered how it was when I was a kid and not being known as a “narc”.  Still, this is really a bad thing.  Where are the cops?

Well, I asked my daughter that question.  She said that lots of kids are busted all the time.  She said “Everyone does it.  Except me and my friends of course.”  There are so many kids on probation that the youth authority has to run extra anti-drug classes to keep pace with demand.

And, our high school is not alone in this.  What can be done?