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“They have praised him for speaking out frankly on. something. which they say. should have been brought into the open long ago and say they fear. the situation is even worse than revealed by — the principal.

This point was supported by a student who spoke to a News. reporter attending a | parents’: advisory group meeting at the secondary. school last .week which. discussed student use of. drugs.

He spoke of teacher in-

difference to the = situation

and. told of a student’s term paper having the words “stoned again?” across it.

Holt had estimated that 50 per cent of students ex-

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perience drugs while passing through the-school. system and that” less than two percent stay with drugs as _ part of their day-to-day life.

A. survey released this

week by the B.C. Alcohol &

Drug Commission backed up . these: figures by putting the —

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kashish or. ‘marijuana during their school years as being 50 per cent and stated that 20 per cent experience other | drugs such as MDA or LSD. Eight and a‘half per cent of Students use cocaine during

their school years. Heroine |

use is put at 2 per cent.

But the student, who

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named, puts the figures in Vancouver as. being far higher.

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‘users on the weekends and holidays”, while as many as about 30 percent actually

attend class under the in-

fluence of drugs. |

“Every class I go to there

‘are guys who are stoned. I

have never seen a teacher Say anything to a guy who was stoned,” he said. |

Trustee Sager thinks the

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cyclical thing” and has a hunch it will blow | over in a few years. —

‘He notes that. ‘when he attended Hillside Secondary just a few years ago the use of drugs had all but faded out, whereas a decade ago

_ drugs were .a major problem

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No. Prostitution is a destructive force tm our

society. I personally would make every effort to stop it.

schools is up “drastically” and that for some smoking marijuana “becomes a way life”. He maintained: “Their whole point to life is to get stoned at lunch.”

In case the trend doesn't peter out, Sager says the school board must develop a plan to fight the problem.

What’s needed, he says, is from six to nine months study of the situation, then the implementation of a

“firmer policy than what we've seen.”

“There probably should be a firmer policy that states what happening to a student if he’s caught,” Sager says. “Right now it isn’t con- sistent. One of the things they do is just transfer-the kids.”

While Sager admits the problem is serious, he says

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make-shift solutions.

“What I don’t want to see | thing . happen,” he warns. “I would _ hate to see the board draw ~ up some quick solutions to. the problem without enough

is a reactionary

thought on the matter.”

One of the things he'll be - pressing for after he’s sworn into office next month is the .. establishment of some sort -

of a community work program for students caught with illegal drugs.

“I'm not one to think that just throwing him (the student drug abuser) in jail will solve the problem,” says Sager. .

“There's probably a little” more awareness by parents

needed to this problem,” he says. .

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