ELKRIDGE, Md. —Howard County school officials are investigating what led elementary school students to consume alcohol on a bus late last month.
In a letter sent home on May 2 to students at Deep Run Elementary School in Elkridge, Principal Tricia Collins-McCarthy wrote that two students drank alcohol on school bus 676 on April 29 before the bus reached the campus. A third student on the same bus told a school counselor what happened.
Collins-McCarthy wrote that the parents of all the children involved in the incident have been contacted and the students are facing disciplinary consequences based on the school system's drug and alcohol policies.
"Possession and/or distribution of alcohol are serious offenses," Collins-McCarthy wrote. "It goes without saying that at no time should a Deep Run student possess, distribute or consume alcohol.
"It is my sincere hope that by informing you of this event, it will provide you with the catalyst to have a conversation with your own child about the code of conduct and expected behaviors."
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2 comments:
This is the kind of society we are promoting. Children shouldn't drink but it is acceptable for adults to get plastered and we make it sound like it is the right and fun thing to do. Unfortunately it seems more and more adults are becoming members of the drinking and other drug use culture.
The only part of the culture that has seen a decrease is the tobacco use culture and if I didn't know better, and I don't, that people are trying to replace it with MJ use.
Why so many humans seem intent on using these unhealthy substances I don't know. They certainly cause untold misery.
1:26 is correct, every fun thing advertised here on the shore has to do with drinking. Now we can't even go to to the Wico youth center without liquor. It is an epidemic here, abused more than Heroin.
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