Monday, April 23, 2007 8:54 AM
Right-Mind
Drunk at School
Is there any wonder they cannot pass the WASL? From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
About 20 percent of 10th- and 12th-graders in Washington schools have been drunk at school in the past year -- up from 15 percent two years ago.
That's just one statistic that jumps out of the optimistically titled "Biannual Healthy Youth Survey," which came out of Olympia on Wednesday.
It is conducted every two years among sixth-, eighth-, 10th- and 12th-graders at 1,028 Washington schools. Almost 200,000 students participated in this survey, conducted by several state agencies in fall 2006.
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The 2006 survey included a first-time question about using painkillers to get high. Ten percent of 10th-graders reported that they had gone on a painkiller high in the past 30 days.
Another question new to the 2006 survey asked if students had been drunk or high within the past 30 days. Saying yes were 22.8 percent of 10th-graders.
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