June 11, 2005
Scotland’s class issue
OK, I concede there may be some bumps along the road to legalization:
Many Scots pupils ‘too stoned to study’
Scotland’s schools are being gripped by a growing “cannabis culture”, with increasing numbers of pupils turning up for class under the influence of drugs, it was claimed yesterday.
Delegates at the annual conference of the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS), the country’s main teaching union, heard how some youngsters even queue up at the school gates before the morning bell to buy marijuana.
… Bob Dow, a maths teacher at a high school in Castlemilk in Glasgow, said in recent years he had witnessed a rise in the number of pupils stoned in class. He said it made teaching virtually impossible, with some of the youngsters unable to concentrate and others continually laughing … It can fuel indiscipline with some pupils, but another side-effect is that some of them get so stoned the night before that they don’t even bother coming in to school at all.”
Scotland’s Executive Education Department apparently responded that it was “getting the message across about the dangers of drugs.” Just not to kids.
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