WHAT I POST BELOW IS MENT TO BE INFORMATIONAL, ON WHAT I HAVE EXPERICED OVER THE YEARS. It does not reflect my teams.
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
I've never heard even a hint of alcohol or drug use with any of my students. But it's a private catholic school, so that may not be too surprising.
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I agree with T^2. Your students are really good at keeping their mouths shut. I look at it from this angle. Two of my teams are based out of the school that I went to. It too, is a private Christian school. The amount of "secret" drug and alcohol use at the school was horrible when I was a Jr. and Sr. Our school also had/has a strict, no smoking policy, but I can tell you that half of my graduating class started freshman/sophomore year, underage. At my school, we jokingly referred to it as "Rich kids, better drugs." Horrible, I know. It exists, don't turn a blind eye to it just because you are at a private school.
And I know it still exists at school, as graduating team members have told me.
In my FRC team, I am one of the younger mentors of the group. Most of the students know that they can come to me and discuss things that they are having problems with, including anything listed above. Personally, I would have loved to have a mentor close to my age for that reason. FIRST is not just all about robots, it's also about making a better person, as we all know.
I agree though with the people above, that you really need to look at how the school would handle it.