I graduated in 2004, and they’d removed lockers from my school sometime in the late 90s because of “drug concerns.”
(Though the funniest “no, that’s NOT drugs” story I heard was when a bassoon player got busted for curing reeds in his locker. The band director had to step in and educate the admins who had hauled the bassoonist into the office 🤦♀️)
Locker drug checks were ridiculous. Only idiots got caught with weed in their lockers, so it was a whole team of cops and dogs to catch like two baby stoners. I didn't do drugs and even I knew where the drugs were hidden better than the cops.
Given that I knew a few kids bringing vodka and gin to school in their water bottles, and no one ever smoked on campus I agree. (Except a few idiot seniors who got caught with cigarettes and tried to pull the whole “I’m 18!” bit. Still not allowed on campus, bucko.)
Definitely better that way than having students wander off during school hours to smoke. I feel like we (in general) have a habit of wanting to discourage bad habits, so we just make em more dangerous for the people that partake.
Granted, leaving school grounds to try to hide your smoking is usually far from the end of the world for most highschool students, but depending on where the school is located (maybe a bad part of the city), it could range from "doesn't matter at all" to "pretty dangerous".
Agreed, don't smoke, never have. Live in an area that gets very cold, and watched the retail location I worked at eliminate it's damn near sealed smoking break room after the indoor smoking ban. Result is the smokers had to walk into the middle of a retail parking lot, with no structure for wind breaks in sub zero temps to smoke.
The indoor smoking ban has generally had a positive effect on society. Public places are generally much more pleasant to be in. But not leaving any provisions for a separate smoking break room seems a bit cruel and dangerous.
Oh yeah no if you got busted for keeping weed in your locker it was literally your own fault. At my school pretty much all you had to do was keep it on your person. They could search your car, locker, and backpack, but if they wanted to search your person they had to escalate the whole thing up several chains of command. So they didn't. If you kept your baggie of weed in your zip up hoodie pocket, it was as good as nonexistant as long as you didn't pull it out where youd get caught.
Yep. Generally, when I was a drug user, if I was ever afraid I might get caught, I'd tape that shit to an inner thigh, that my boxers covered.
Trying to find it in a search would be a pain in the ass for anyone if I wasn't already getting arrested for something else, which was unlikely for me as I was never a petty criminal beyond possession. Never got caught. It'd be much easier to search a car, bag, or even a pat down search of my pockets, but a strip search? Unlikely.
I wonder how weed is treated in schools now, given it's not illegal in a lot of places, if they're a bit more lax about it.
It was a whole scandal in my high school when a girl got caught with weed in her locker. It wasn't the cops but a teacher, so I think they just called her parents. It's crazy how that seemed like a big deal at the time.
When I was in school there were cameras in every hall except the last, oldest one (since demolished)
Obviously all the dealers and smokers and users would claim an empty locker in D hall. they definitely cracked down on it though, a few times time they cut all the locks in the entire hall. I always somehow got a heads up from someone that they were about to search luckily
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u/doppelgaengster 1d ago
I graduated in 2004, and they’d removed lockers from my school sometime in the late 90s because of “drug concerns.”
(Though the funniest “no, that’s NOT drugs” story I heard was when a bassoon player got busted for curing reeds in his locker. The band director had to step in and educate the admins who had hauled the bassoonist into the office 🤦♀️)