SRK you are blind as a bat! I feel sorry for kids in Janesville with role models around like you! Open your eyes and look around, Janesville kids are in deep (drug abuse trouble)

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Certainly I am not for drugs in my neighborhood or schools. If there is actionable information I am all for proceeding with it.
I have chosen to remain annonymous for a number of reasons; therefore, I only give my opinion and refrain from providing information unless I am willing to cite my source.

SRK-People like you are the reason why something doesn't get done with issues like this. Sounds like you are all for the drugs in your neighborhood and schools. For your info, it isn't rumor when there was a conviction about 2 years ago for manufacturing and delivering Heroin, and the dealing goes on. I witness the transactions on a daily basis. By the way, why don't YOU go on record with YOUR real name?

"The School Board should also be advised that an employee of an elementary school in Janesville runs a drug house (quite possibly Heroin) and encourages underage drinking parties."
= rumor unless the source would like to go on record with his/her real name. Until such time, I will (and encouage all to) consider this nothing more than gossip.

No rumors here. Just the obvious facts.

Rumors abound in the city of Janesville!

Heroin making its way into Janesville Schools...No kidding...The School Board should also be advised that an employee of an elementary school in Janesville runs a drug house (quite possibly Heroin) and encourages underage drinking parties. This IS a real problem. Someone please check into this!

I have to agree with fbcoach. Part of the problem is the acceptance of some illegal drug use. Some kids never grow out of pushing hte boundries. If the hardline is taken with alcohol and cigarettes, then that is the first boundry to get pushed. If your kid pushes that, consider it a warning sign. When that boundry doesn't exist, maybe it is pot. And what is even that isn't a boundry? There are no warning signs that then exist.
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Parents, teachers have a limited responsibility for your kids - essentially to educate and keep safe. They do their part - more than their part; however your responsibility for your children is limitless.

igotclout, if you don't think there's a HUGE prescription drug/herion problem in Southern Wisconsin (including the schools) you are seriously mistaken! Just because law enforcement only has caught 29 means NOTHING!! Look around and take off the blinders>

No one is blaming they are making a point as to the problem and trying to find solutions to it. A parent can only do so much and if the parents, schools, police and community work together it might just make a difference and it makes sense to me and probly to some others that are parents and care where their kids end up. I as a parent want my kids to be around for a long time not one of the statistics of an overdose or inmate population.

biggirl pain pills is just as addicting and just as hard to get off of as most other opiate related drugs and the withdrawls are simular to heroin and I have seen my sister try and quit cold turkey and it was awful. Another thing Is Methadone a replacement drug for heroin and what is it? synthetic heroin and the withdrawl is also the same as heroin. so whats the difference? it is prescribed. The governments way of control over the addicts as it is a government program.

29 in school system is 29 to many arrests and not only is pain killers a gateway drug with young kids pot is also as they keep looking for a bigger and better high and I know many kids my 4 sons age (now 20 to 32) that were getting high 14 years or more ago so it is nothing new as to the using in schools. heroin is big with high school and young adults and to look at it lightly is insane....Some of the younger ones have no clue as to the addiction power and end up doing things they never thought they would do to get it. I wish they would not lock the addicts away and find help for them to warehouse young kids in jail or prison is not the answer as they will learn more negative then good. The anger they feel will worsen and they will come out far worse then when they went in. Yes lock the dealers (the real source) up not the ones selling enough to cover their habit Get to the big guys and put them away for life. My sons smoked weed and tried some other things and I am grateful they haven't did heroin and I hope they never do.I have had close relatives use it and one of my nieces almost died but it didn't end there. they are adults and there is not much I can do if they use. I know and so do they it will never be allowed in my house as I will not hesitate to call the police if I would find anything. And they know I will. As far as percs/oxys/vicodin dont even get me started as the amounts prescribed by licensed doctors is insane. The doctors know the addiction powers of it and just scribble their names to the script pad and to the pharmacy they go.

I teach at a local high school. I have a kid in my class who just got back from rehab for heroine. I know two recent graduates who flunked out of their junior or senior year because of heroine. Both are now clean and got there degrees through other local problems. None of these kids where ever arrested. IT IS A PROBLEM!!!! As is parents holding beer/alcohol parties for their kids and thinking it is okay because they take the kids keys. If parents encourage or permit drinking they can't complain about drugs.

igotclout is right. The 29 arrests clearly are not even heroin by what the sentence goes on to say. It's most likely "opiates," which could mean any pain medication really. I'm concerned about how they frighten us always about one more war after another in order to justify increased surveillance by teachers and police of our children.

Heroin is the cheaper form of vicodin or oxycontin these days. Unfortunately, doctors are still happily prescribing these drugs all the time to adults, and kids are taking from their parents' medicine cabinets. Start by talking to kids about the dangers of these prescription drugs, and don't think that just because they were prescribed, they are "safe".

of course they all have their reasons. which is why we will NEVER eradicate ANY drug. but the core of a good kid who makes smart choices is the parents communicating with them like they are people.

thekid3477: I'm not in disagreeance w/ the points that both yourself and spark have made... the one thing that also needs to be factored into the equation is that a lot of this is rebellion from the parents, not just peer pressure... every kid has his/her own personal reason, and there are many that may repeated... doesn't make it right though...

"...Spoden says the solution begins with education." what needs to happen is that JPD and Rock County need to get the crud off the streets... there have been countless times where we've seen deals being made as the police have driven right past and not done a thing... how much more obvious does it need to be for them?? we've aided them in giving information about a drug house that we live next to (the drugs weren't always there), and had people light crack pipes up in front of our 4 year old in broad daylight... even with reporting that (they were arrested, are already out of jail, and back to their old habits) and giving JPD more than ample enough info about this particular house, nothing has been done about this... we've even requested that the K-9 unit be sent in a few times, and still nothing... if JPD/Rock Co. aren't willing to buckle down harder on this, I'm unfortunately, not surprised that this is occuring in the schools... angered, yes, but not surprised...

i...actually...agree...with...spark on this one;) the schools can supply the info but when kids are with their peers they wont absorb it nearly as well as if they sit down and have a one on one with mom or dad. you will NEVER eradicate ANY drug. its just not possible. but if you want to keep YOUR kid from abusing drugs, alcohol most def included(and probably highlighted:), YOU need to talk to them like a person.

It's too bad someone hasn't figured out a reverse psychology replacement for hardcore drugs. It would be enlightening to see parents pleading with kids to stop consuming leafy greens and fluoride enhanced water. The cold hard reality would set in when going to pick your teen up from school you see them popping Brussels sprout like candy.

I remember when kids made fun of me for insisting I had insurance on my car before I drove it.

You can't teach a kid how to deal with peer pressure, but you can teach them about being self confident and secure with their choices.

"If peeing in your pants is cool consider me Miles Davis."

Anyone selling or giving heroin or any drug, including alcohol, to a minor should be punished severely. This problem must be solved. If I knew for a fact that someone was supplying drugs to my child, I wouldn't rest until that person was dispatched, never to threaten my family (or any family) again. This is as bad as, if not worse than, being a pediphile.

This is so scary and times have definitely changed. Parents, educate your children and point them in the right direction. Like just_hype said. It's your responsibility to raise them. The schools will take appropriate actions should the kids choose to make the wrong choices. Peer pressure can be brutal, but if you go into it knowing wrong from right and what the consequences of your actions might lead to, it sure is easier to make the right decisions. Drugs aren't cool and never will be.

So janesville has a drug problem in the school's HMMMM I remember a bunch of post staiting janesville school's did not have a problem with drug's SEEM"S time's have changed and yes this is a big problem and it should not be tooken lightly

The solution begins with education? Schools are expected to babysit our 4 year olds, feed our hungry, give nursing services, provide social work, and make sure no child is left behind. So if drug prevention begins with education, will teachers and schools get the blame for a child who turns to drugs? Once the solution begins with our educational system then the blame will soon follow towards our educational system.

Zippy_TPH-This is a pretty innapropriate time to post links on your beliefs of legalizing HARD drugs when KIDS in our schools obvioulsy have issues with this. Come on.

Sorry, I got the Law Enforcement Against Prohibition wrong
http://www.leap.cc/cms/index.php

Some education:

War on Drugs clock
http://www.drugsense.org/wodclock.htm

Gateway drug fallacy
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/...

Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
http://www.drugwarfacts.org/cms/?q=node/...

ACLU Drug Law Reform Project
http://www.aclu.org/drugpolicy/gen/10831...