City public school students are regularly waking and baking before class and smoking vapes in the buildings as drug-related incidents at schools are on the rise.
New York kids are getting a higher education these days.
“They come in sluggish or sleepy. Their eyes are red. Sometimes you can smell it, too,” said one exasperated teacher at August Martin High School in Queens.The problem has gotten so bad that Mayor Eric Adams highlighted it in the “State of Our Schools” address last Wednesday – saying that pot use is worse with the rampant spread of illegal cannabis stores in every city neighborhood.
Incidents involving illegal drugs, drug paraphernalia, alcohol and unauthorized use of possession of controlled substances or prescription medications are more common, too – they increased 17% in the 2022-2023 school year compared to the year before, according to city officials. Students outside some Queens high schools were seen smoking weed outside before class last week. Many said it is common to see their peers come in high.“They vape all the time. Everybody knows that. They go in the bathroom in groups,” said one 11th-grader at the August Martin school, which is in South Jamaica, Queens.“I’ve never seen them smoking but I’ve seen them coming to school high,” said one junior of her stoned peers. “It’s like almost all the time. But you mostly see it on Fridays.
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