In response to a recent drugs and alcohol survey taken by students that had less-than-favorable results, Principal Weeton will be holding a drug and alcohol awareness forum on Thursday, March 12.

Drug and alcohol use has become fairly common amongst the high school students nowadays; however, many parents have remained blind to it. The meeting will open the parent’s eyes to the rampant use of such substances.

“I was shocked by the survey results,” Robert Deadmon, a parent of a junior, said. “This meeting is going to be a wake-up call for parents. We’ve had our blinders on for too long.”

After a series of speakers such as former addicts, ambulance workers, etc. that talked with the students, some kids are feeling the heat and are even setting their own restrictions about what they should and shouldn’t do.

“A few of them [speakers] scared me pretty bad,” junior Robert Earl said. “I am not saying I will never drink again, but I think I will be more responsible.

Additionally, the principal urgently wants the parents to know the danger their kids are in, which most parents seem to currently be oblivious to.

“In the past, I think we brushed the problem under the rug,” principal David Weeton said. “We can’t do that anymore. We’ve been lucky that none of our kids have been killed in drunken driving accidents or overdoses, but I am afraid if we don’t act, our luck is going to run out.