The I Love CVille Show With Jerry Miller! - Alleged Drug OD's At MHS In School Hours; Monticello Assistant Principal Emails Parents

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

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Good Tuesday afternoon, guys. I'm Jerry Miller. Thank you kindly for joining us on the I Love Seville show. It's a busy program lined up on an afternoon in downtown Charlottesville. Unfortunately, multiple parents reach out to us, including one family that we know extremely well. Last night, a daughter with her mother sitting next to us sent me a direct message through the mom's account and said Monticello High School is a scary place right now. Overdoses are happening and they're happening at a unhealthy and terrifying clip. We will unpack that story for you today. Laced vape cartridges putting students on stretchers and into ambulances heading into hospital during school hours.

Assistant principal for Monticello High School has notified parents what is going on. Parents feel the clarity and what is actually happening is being sugarcoated by administrators within Albemarle County Public Schools. That story, the lead of the Tuesday edition of the I Love Seville show. Also on today's program, we will talk 22% of families unable to pay their bills in the Charlottesville region. 22%, according to a recent report of families in the Charlottesville region, say they do not have enough money to make their basic needs. Piedmont Virginia Community College teamed with the University of Virginia Equity Center to create the Orange Dot 6.0 report, and that report shows one in four families cannot pay their bills on time in this area. We'll talk about that today. We will talk on today's program that Gen Zers are having side hustles at a very aggressive

clip. According to a recent report, guys, from LendingTree, 25 percent, actually that number is higher, isn't it, Judah? Half of Gen Zers have side hustles. I have maintained on this program for at least 36 months that the Charlottesville area is no longer a 40-hour-per-week working environment. And if you're working 40 hours a week, you're going to struggle to maintain, you're going to struggle to sustain, and you're going to struggle to meet your bills. That topic on today's show. We'll talk city of Charlottesville giving up funding for smart scale projects. Another project that Charlottesville, the city, is bypassing funding.

This one from the Virginia Department of Transportation's smart scale initiative. Sam Sanders says, we don't have the personnel to initiate this project. We're going to pass on that money. That topic on today's show. And how about Tony Bennett, another product from his program, a 100 plus million dollar deal. This one, Trey Murphy, he joins the likes of Joe Harris, Malcolm Brogdon, and DeAndre Hunter as athletes from Tony Bennett's basketball team that have signed 100 plus million dollar deals in the National Basketball Association. We'll give props to Mexicali Restaurant, Judah. 50 parking spots on site, Mexicali Restaurant. It's a street art museum, meets a cocktail bar, meets a music venue, meets Latin fusion cuisine. River Hawkins and Johnny

Ornelas, you guys have built one of the crown jewels of the culinary environment here in Charlottesville and Central Virginia. We'll give props to Charlottesville Business Brokers. We're in the process of doing three deals, literally as we speak, from a business brokerage environment, including one that may have a signed letter of intent by close of business today. We are busy at charlesvillebusinessbrokers.com. Judah, studio camera, then two shot to welcome Jack of all trades, Jack of all wits,

Judah Wickauer to the program. I asked you to start the program. Which headline is most intriguing to you? Before I give my take, Judah Wickauer, good Tuesday afternoon. And which is the most intriguing to you before I give my take Judah Wittkower, good Tuesday afternoon. And which is the most intriguing to you, my friend? I think the most intriguing to me is what's going on in the schools and the

fact that, uh, I mean, is vaping a, do we call it a pandemic? Oh, it's a pandemic. It's a pandemic.

Cause there were, you know, there were kids that smoked when I was in high school, decades and decades and decades ago, but I don't think it was ever commonly accepted. I don't think it was ever just a common part of life that kids were smoking. And it seems like vaping is just a,

is almost becoming just generally accepted that kids are doing that. And I think that's crazy. Synthetic drugs plaguing today's youth. I hear from other youth that some students in the area, and it's not limited to Albemarle, it's not limited to Charlottesville, it's Central Virginia-wide, it's Virginia-wide, it's Commonwealth-wide. Students are going online. They are buying pills online from sellers they don't know. They're setting up P.O. boxes in the mailbox express type locations

and shopping centers. Places that it's easy to get a third party mailing address and having the pills they purchase online which they don't know what they're truly buying sent to P.O. boxes away from their houses and that's their high for the weekend. Synthetic drugs,

a scourge on today's youth. We'll talk about that, and it's a perfect lead onto the top topic on today's show, something that should make it into the legacy media cycle. I will respect the anonymity of the junior in high school who sent me this message, and I will highlight, before I read the message verbatim from the junior at Monticello High School, I will say this. My first response to this junior in high school was, thank you for sharing. I'm sorry you're going through this.

Please make sure your parents are aware of this and your message exchanged with me. My first response to the junior in high school who reached out to me was, make sure your parents know you are contacting me and what is going on. So any parents that are watching the program, you know I respect your anonymity when you ask me to keep things on the down low. And the youth who reach out to me, the first thing I say to them is this, make sure your parents know you are communicating with me. I'm an adult and make sure they know you are communicating this topic matter, what it is about. Okay. So I'm going to read verbatim without utilizing her name. Jerry,

I know you have covered much concerning Almarol public schools. And I thought I'd like to share with you that today at Monticello High School, five of my peers overdosed in school. They are all from different friend groups. My friend was taking out cold on a stretcher. Their carts were laced. It bothers me that the school focuses on phone usage and knows which kids are vaping and overlooks something this serious. This is the school-wide email which really bothered me. She continues in her direct message. Without transparency, I do not feel safe at my school.

They made it so we can't video in school anymore. So if kids break out in a fight, we cannot show what is going on. I don't want you to use my name, please. Respectfully yours. I'm respecting her anonymity. Judah has read this thread as well. He can verify the veracity, the straightforwardness, the honesty of this message exchange. I want to caveat again, I messaged to the 16-year-old in response, make sure your parents know you are reaching out to me and what this topic matter is about. That's the first thing I said. So here's the nitty-gritty. We got the email forwarded to us by this parent and by this daughter. We then reached out to other parents at Monticello High School

that we know who confirmed this storyline. I'm going to read this verbatim, an email sent yesterday at 2.43 p.m. from Wendell Green, the assistant principal at Monticello High School. Dear Monticello High School family, he writes, I am writing to inform you that earlier today, emergency personnel responded to our school briefly to assist with a medical incident involving two students. Everyone is safe and we have addressed the situation with the utmost focus on the safety and well-being of our students and staff. Principal Green, Assistant Principal Green writes, we take the health, wellness, and safety of all our members of our school community very seriously. At no point was the

safety of any students or staff compromised. While this situation did not cause any changes to our school's operation, we know that anytime we call emergency responders to school, it might cause concerns for your child, and therefore, we want to keep you informed of the circumstances at our school. We apologize for any concern that this may have caused your family. Have a good afternoon. Sincerely, Wendell Green, Assistant Principal, Monticello High School. The parents quickly point out to me that it was five students. It was not two as identified in the email. The parents quickly point out to me that it was five students. It was not two as identified in the email. The parents quickly point out to me that these were drug overdoses from vape cartridges that were laced with synthetic

drugs that was unknown to the students who were utilizing them during school hours. The parents also follow up by saying this. This is why phones are necessary in school hours on the student's person. We want to know what's going on and they feel safer when they're able to communicate with us. So much to unpack on this story. TV stations, local newspapers, and local radio. Watch this show. This should be part of your news cycle tomorrow and the next day, the overdosing of students on school grounds during school hours at Monticello High School. I use the word allegedly as well, although this has been confirmed by multiple parents and through what appears to be a very vague email from the assistant principal of Monticello High School, Judah Wickhauer. Where do you want to begin?

I mean, where to begin? There's a lot in there. The thing is, it's not just at schools. I'm looking at another article talking about the number of kids having seizures after swallowing drugs has doubled since 2009. Cite your source. This is on 29 News, and it's talking about drugs in your cabinet, kids getting drugs out of their parents' medicine cabinets. But I think in terms of this story, yeah, I think it's crazy that the vice principal is downplaying what happened.

Now, of course, we have the students take on it, and what jumps out to me is that were they all buying vape cartridges from the same person? It seems highly suspicious that five kids would randomly overdose on the same day from vaping. But I think it's disappointing that vaping is so common. And the only thing that I disagree with

is I still don't think that phones are a good thing in schools. Uh, it seems to me that, uh, a lot of, a lot of what kids do is predicated on having an audience and giving them an audience through their phones and taking videos and whether it's Tik TOK or whatever, you know, wherever they're sending these things. I just think it's a bad... I don't think it's helpful. And while I understand the desire to want to keep in contact, it still seems like a distraction and something that should not be allowed in schools.

Which part of your take there did you think I would disagree with? I thought you might go with having phones available. No, I thought your take was fantastic. Absolutely on point, Judah Wittkower, to start the program. First, I want to thank the junior at Monticello High School who reached out to me with her mother's permission through her mother's Facebook account. Anyone who reaches out to us that is a minor, the first thing I'm going to respond to is,

do you have your parents' permission to reach out to me, an adult? Get it. Second, I will say, make sure your parents know what we're talking about or what you're telling me. Yeah, definitely. Because I'm a parent myself. Third, I will respect the anonymity of anyone who reaches out to me with information if they say, please keep my name off the record. And I've proven that I keep those promises in everything we do on this talk show. The student that reached out to me that said five of her friends

overdosed yesterday at Monticello High School because of lace cartridges, that is... That's nuts. Crippling. I mean, it's sad that there are enough people at the school vaping that this student knows five of them,

and what's more, five of them that all OD'd on the same day. Exactly. And what should not be lost in this conversation or this topic is the impact this has on mental health. On impressionable and developing minds and brains that are seeking maturity

that may say they're ahead of where they should be mature wise but we know maturity comes from trial and error. The assistant principal at Monticello High School who towed the school, public school line by saying, this does not impact the safety of the students.

This did not impact the well-being of our students and staff. That's out of touch and bogus. And Assistant Principal Wendell Green, I attribute the email that you sent to parents yesterday at 2.43 p.m. on a Monday to you following county protocols from the superintendent's office. Yeah. Because the email you sent assistant principal green is lacking empathy, authenticity, clarity, communication. It is out of touch. And my hope is the three paragraphs that you sent parents were copy and paste language. Proforma. That's proforma that's proforma because if this is how you actually think overdoses

students put on stretchers wheeled out with student bodies watching eyes rolled to the back of their heads ghost white backs on stretchers wheeled into ambulance with cpr functionalities being performed on them, if that's not going to have crippling mental health impacts on student bodies, then you're not in touch with reality. Even more than mental health effects, I would hope the school would get in touch with parents and say, look, this is what happened.

You know your kids. If you think your kid might be vaping, there are laced cartridges out there that are causing seizures. I mean, does the school really want to look out for the safety of the kids? Because I think that would be the first thing to do. Dr. Karen Wolf, watching the program,

who I have tremendous respect for, said, I completely agree that seeing this is incredibly traumatic for witnessing students yeah suzanne daily watching the program this is a boilerplate message across acps almorel high school principal sends the exact same message when a medical emergency occurs suzanne daily also acps will not bring in drug dogs to schools even though they pretend to care about the well-being of students. We get emails about metal detectors at AHS sports events in our children's attendance, but they know drugs and vaping are happening during the school day and they do nothing. Suzanne Daly says Haas should have been fired years ago, the superintendent.

Karen Wolf says, I send my daughter with an Apple Watch so we can communicate in emergencies, but she is not tempted to use a phone during school hours. Jessica Wingfield Lilly says this, they wouldn't allow kids to leave class, but allow them to sit in class and watch someone fall out in the floor, foaming at the mouth. The direct messages, the DMs are coming in. This from a mom off the record. My child who would like to keep anonymous said a child was in the classroom throwing desk and chairs. They were in danger. Said they passed out on the floor. How's that not a danger to others? Someone got arrested last week for selling Percocet on school grounds.

The mom that's looking for anonymity. Oh, she's saying her son is a 10th grader at Monticello High School. I youth that we know, our family, that are in high schools locally, public and private, have said multiple times to us,

kids they know and run in similar social circles with that they call very good friends are going to websites online, buying what they think are pills from overseas, have set up P.O. boxes and some of these shopping centers that have P.O. box banks

and have the drugs that they buy overseas, often from China, mailed to P.O. Boxes that they pay a monthly fee for, and that's their party, that's their high for the weekend. That is effing terrifying. I've said many times on this program, growing up in middle school, in high school, in

college, I was the bad, bad, bad kid. The one that broke the rules, the one that did too much drinking, too much partying, dated the older girls, and did drugs. The extent of the

drugs that we did growing up was smoking weed and drinking too much. It was not synthetic drugs. It was not vaping. It was not buying pills from China and going to P.O. boxes in Fifth Street Station and setting up a mailing address that your parents had no idea you were utilizing.

This is absolutely terrifying. And for Albemarle County Public Schools to offer messaging to parents, communication to parents, that is, for lack of a better phrase, bullshit, is a sign that the school system is at best out of touch, at worst more inclined with covering their own tail for legal liability than actually communicating straightforward to parents and protecting their kids. And there may be an element of just not knowing what to do. We have multiple parents that are saying they saw kids yesterday at Bonicello High School falling on the floor and foaming at the mouth, and one parent sent me a direct message that you can see. I'm going to slide to Judah Schott so he can verify what I'm saying.

Judah camera. Blue bubbles without reading her name, please. Which one? Blue bubbles. My child, who I would like to keep anonymous, said a child was in the classroom throwing desks and chairs. They were a danger. Said they passed out in the floor. How's that not? So I'm trying to understand this. Was it?

Finish the blue bubbles. Someone got arrested last week for selling Percocet. This is Monticello High School yesterday. Was the chair throwing... A result of being high on synthetic drugs? Yes. And then they immediately OD'd after that? That's how it works. Not always, I would imagine.

This via a parent of a local private schooler. Surely the assistant principal had the email ghostwritten for them and approved by at least a couple of others. Probably came from their account because they are in charge of student safety or something. Blame shouldn't be associated with that individual's name, but with the governance overall of Albemarle County Public Schools. I agree with that statement. I 100% agree with that statement. Deep throat, going crazy, and then passing out. Then he alludes to a death that happened a couple of years ago to the hands of the police.

To the hands of the police? At the hands of the police. I want to, as a father of three, a father of two kids, granted, mine are in first grade and the other is 22 months old. And frankly, coming from the perspective of someone that was probably the guy that you didn't want your daughter around in high school and your son's around on Friday or Saturday night, it's no longer enough to say, who are you hanging out with and what are you doing? It's now a world of, let me see your bank accounts and track the usage of apps on your phone. And please don't vape. Because who knows what you're buying from that kid in school.

The thing that scares me the most in life as a parent, it's no longer the drinking and driving for kids. It's effing synthetic drugs like fentanyl and whatever is in the cartridges that kids are vaping. Yeah. Yeah. And it's a world that is so uncertain with its trackability. Yeah.

My parents, your parents, the parents of many viewers and listeners, if you're a millennial that's watching this program, and I would bet a large majority are, you had weed on your person or you were smoking weed when you were on a Friday or Saturday night, you reeked of it. You went boozing underage with your friends at a campfire or in the woods or in your parents' basement or your buddy's basement down the street,

and you came home by curfew, you reeked of booze. My parents could smell that I was in trouble when I walked in the door. You can't do that now. It's odorless. It's vaporless. It's digestible. It doesn't leave a residue of stink. Another thing that's crazy and completely different, the times have changed. It's less about getting drunk. And it's more about chasing a synthetic or pharmaceutical high. And to the parents

that are saying, Jerry, the show has influenced and changed the stance you have on cell phones because people listen. You may not like what I respond here. I still don't think cell phones should be a part of the school day. And this may go against the popular opinion, but the show is honest and it's straightforward and it's not about agreeing all the time. It's about having conversation that's frank. I don't think the phones are part of the solution. Is an Apple Watch, like Dr. Wolf is saying, part of the solution? Perhaps. Perhaps that's part of the solution. Apple Watch is not going to be able to video

and social media and snap and TikTok. But it'll still give a method of communication with parents. Because I will bet you there's a boatload of parents that are watching this program that feel a level of distrust with administration and with the school system, a level of distrust that did not exist per se

when we were kids and our parents were supervising ourselves. When we went to school, my parents looked at school as a byproduct of them as parents. Now kids go to school, whether it's public or private, and it's not a byproduct of parents. What do you mean by a byproduct of parents?

An extension of protection from mom and dad. Yeah. Kelly Jackson, I want my kids to have a cell all the time. I want them to be able to call me anytime they need. I appreciate that, KJ, and respect your opinion tremendously. I will stand by the statement that I do not think the cell phone in the school and on school hours is the right solution. Nor do I.

Juan Sarmiento, the vaping and drugs have reached epidemic proportions in schools. I agree with Judah. Phones are a distraction. The school needs to get a whole lot better at transparency and alerting the parents if they want the cell phone ban to last. No doubt. The communication from the schools when it applies to parents has got to be honest. I talk about this with the health system, the UVA health saga and the fraudulent billing and the medical chart changing to maintain

performance standards. It erodes trust. And if there's no trust with a health system and its patients, then the house of card crumbles because the house of cards is predicated on trust, going to a hospital and getting medical treatment that's for the best of the patient and their family. That's what it's about. And when that's in jeopard times, the three things a school has to do, in particular public, when it applies to kids, get the kid to school on time and safely, number one. Keep the kids safe during school hours, number two, and get the kid home on time and safely, number three. Those are the three tenets of school. I would imagine education might fall in there. Education cannot happen

if you can't keep the kids from overdosing or fighting or brawling or killing themselves. You can't learn if you're not alive or if you're OD'd or if you're beat the hell up. Those are the three first tenets. Then the education. Your thoughts.

I completely understand a parent's desire to stay in touch with their kids, but I just don't see how phones fit in with an educational place like, provides a stage and a place to show off or goof off. Or I think it's a distraction and I think it's not a good fit for schools. Rotate those lower thirds for this first topic. Ginny Hu watching the program on Twitter. Ginny Hu said, I was driving by Monticello High School at the start of your talk show today, Jerry.

And in the process of driving by Monticello High School at the top of the show, I saw a number of students walking to the market. My first thought was, how is this not a safety issue? And my second thought, do their parents know they are leaving campus and going wherever they want at Monticello High School? If you're just tuning into the program, I was contacted last night by a 16-year-old at Monticello High School with her parents' permission through her mom's account. And she notified me that five students yesterday at Monticello High School overdosed on lace cartridges.

Multiple parents have reached out to us since then, since the show launched 36 minutes ago, including one mom who said one of those students fell to the floor foaming at the mouth. And before the student fell to the floor foaming at the mouth, and before the student fell to the floor, foaming at the mouth, they were picking up desks and chairs and throwing them around the classroom at other students.

Monticello High School responds with a three-paragraph message from the assistant principal, and unfortunately, Mr. Wendell Green, you've been used by a pawn by the front office here, and the three-paragraph message makes no mention of overdosing and of desk and chairs being thrown at other students, of students being carried out on stretchers with

their eyes rolled in the back of their head, pale and ghost white, and CPR being performed on their bodies in hallways. I encourage the television stations and the newspapers that vet this show for information for their respective news broadcasts and news cycles to dig into this story and publish the content on your respective platform because it's content matter that the community deserves to know. Jessica Wingfield Lily if we thought schools were safer we may not want our kids to have them all the time I think she means phones

I think she does as well I agree it's an understandable... She wants the phones in the schools. Kelly Jackson, I don't think they should be texting or playing games, but I don't trust the schools enough to let them call me if needed,

and the schools aren't very transparent about what is happening. Karen Wolf, the doctor. The smart technology is what is happening. Karen Wolf, the doctor, the smart technology is what is interfering with our kids' ability to focus on school. Dumb phones and watches are a nice way to allow for them to communicate without interrupting the school day.

Shane Baker-Cervati says, wow. We have two TV stations in the paper watching us now. Grammy, Ward, thank you for watching the broadcast as well. What the actual F is going on here? Yeah. And as generations evolve,

the generations become smarter. And as generations evolve, as generations evolve, the generations become smarter. And the drug use has become innovative in some ways, more stupid in others. Innovative in the ways that there is no smell or stench. Innovative in that it's easier to hide. Innovative that it utilizes the internet and PO boxes and nondescript super DL ways of acquiring the drug of choice.

More stupid because the drug has deadly effects. Who's overdosing on smoke and too many joints? Right. All you do is you sink into the couch and eat a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, a box of Ho-Hos, a couple of Twinkies, a couple of Tall Boys, and pass out. Not that I know.

Well, you don't know what's in a vape anyways, and when it's laced with something, I mean, who knows what it could be. The problem with generations being smarter than the generations that preceded them is that intelligence is oftentimes that intelligence oftentimes stands on the shoulders of knowledge that

doesn't get integrated into a child's understanding. So while they may be more savvy about some things, while they may be more intelligent about some things, that's not always built on all of the knowledge that led to that intelligence. So yes, there is a almost a free-flying intelligence that doesn't understand the things that led to it. I don't think I'm explaining it well. I'm not sure what you're saying.

I'm basically saying that yeah, they know things but they don't know them because they understand the underpinning knowledge that created that knowledge. They just are aware of the facts today. There's no real comprehension. Yeah, you live a life in a silo, especially as a teenager or someone that's youthful. You think you're invincible, untouchable. And because of that

sense of invincibility, because of that siloed perspective, you have no concept of historical comings and goings. And historical comings and goings help you realize, it's called maturity, that it's bad to do drugs that you don't know what they are. When you were growing up and when I was growing up, you ate some mushrooms from a pile of poo or some weed that was grown in the backyard. You knew where it came from. You didn't buy any stuff that came on the internet from China. Come on. The definition of stupidity. There were still bad drugs back then. What?

What do you mean, what? I mean, not that everybody was doing it, but there's long been stuff like PCP, various other drugs out there. That was extremely fringe. I agree.

Extremely fringe. I'm just saying. The PCP of yesteryear is the drug of choice of this year. Karen Wolf says, and I respect this woman's opinion, she's in the trenches. This is not just Monticello High School. I had a patient tell me last week that one student at her school in a neighboring county is high in school every single day. Suzanne Daly making the point I'm making.

Drugs easier to hide from humans. Dogs can sense all of it. 10% of the school would be hauled away if they brought in dogs. But Albemarle County Public School does not want that as a news story. Why in the H-E double hockey sticks is Albemarle County Public Schools not bringing in drug-sniffing dogs? Why in the H-E double hockey sticks is Albemarle County Public Schools not using school resource officers or metal detectors? And it's not just Superintendent Dr. Matthew Haas' Albemarle County Public Schools. Dr. Robert Gurley, Charlottesville Public Schools. Why do you not have drug sniffing dogs, metal detectors,

and school resource officers? You know what it is? It's the political outcry and the political fallout that would result from utilizing those policing methods. I think there's probably a worry of how it would look if we knew the numbers of certain types of people, certain classes of people. Obviously, we don't know what those numbers would be. I don't think the synthetic drugs is a black or white thing. Neither do I. I think the synthetic drugs are an every kid thing. What I'm saying is is the schools may be worried

that how the numbers will play out and how it will look. There's, of course, obviously also the problem of schools not wanting to lose funding or be singled out as a school where this is a pandemic. John Blair on LinkedIn. First, I want to compliment you on practicing child safety. Second, I have no way to verify this, but I was at a sporting event last night

and a Monticello High School parent said there was a desk throwing episode yesterday per their daughter who attends Monticello High School. I don't know if it's related to the drug issue, but it certainly sounds like it could be. The second parent that I've trust on this program verifying the desk throwing incident. Media that's watching this program now, this should be a part of your legacy cycle. Print,

radio and television. If it's not, you're not doing the community a good service. Megan Hart on my personal Facebook page. Wow, all of this is heartbreaking. These schools cover up so much and we are told so little. Thankfully, my children are of age to tell me what's going on. And she says, Matthew Haas is the issue. I'll say it over and over and over again. What is the school board doing about this? Jessica Lilly, the metal detectors. Yes. Why are our children not guarded like the damn president? I'll take it a step further. We go through metal detectors at the airport. We go through metal detectors at the John Paul Jones Arena. We go through metal detectors at Scott Stadium. And we go through metal detectors at Scott Stadium, and we go through

metal detectors at public school athletic events that have attendance of 250 or more people. Yet, we don't go through metal detectors at the entrances of schools where the population count is the greatest. And the reason we don't is because some socialists in Charlottesville. Say metal detectors. Are the path to prison. For students. A vocal. And organized minority. Are trying to dictate what happens. For the majority.

And that's some bullshit. And you know who you are. And you know who you are. And it's the same people. were pushing the NZO. And it's the same people that were pushing the SRO. The anti-SRO and the pro-NZO. And they've been wrong in every circumstance. Lee Ann Beach.

If the school was so worried about the kids' safety, they would have searches regularly. They sit back and do nothing until they put our children first. The kids are the ones suffering. Jennifer Nunley Hux. Western took out all of their lockers. That's a different topic.

She also says, my high school growing up was not a high school known to have more drugs than the other high school, but yet my school system routinely had drug-sniffing dogs come into the schools by ACPS. But ACPS does not do this. Why? One reason is at least some of the high schools don't use lockers. I know Western doesn't use lockers. When I was in school, students and faculty left the building just like you do during a fire drill. Parents, tell your friends they should be listening to this talk show right now

because we ain't hiding anything. We shooting it straight on today's talk show. Vanessa Parkhill in Earliesville, get the dogs in the schools. They will sniff out the stuff we adults are missing. She says, I don't have any issues with taking your kids to breweries or wineries. I'm just saying the serious conversations

need to start even earlier. She says, we adults, parents, have to be the first to set the tone with kids. We lobby for legalized drugs, pot, weed, gummies, and bring them along when we drink. They seek to emulate our behavior. Kids are put on prescription meds at a higher rate than ever before, ADHD, antidepressants, etc. Many start those not long after they hit school. Why would we be surprised when they seek out other things to tweak their mood as they get older?

Those are great points. We've essentially made drugs both over the counter and not over the counter pretty much ubiquitous in our lives and the lives of our kids. You're right. Why is it a surprise that they seek out and find those things? What a mess. What a mess. And parents should be demanding answers of the school board as well. Demand answers of the school board as well. Demand answers of the school board. It's the 120 marker of today's talk show.

There's other topics that we've got to get to on the show. I got an email from a mom. Medical emergency at Albemarle High School. Friday, October 18th. Dear families, emergency personnel responded to our school briefly to assist with the medical incident involving a student. Everyone is safe and they were able to work with our staff to address the situation. At no point was the safety of any students or staff compromised. As some of our students observed the first responders in our building,

I want to ensure you are aware the incident was resolved and everyone is safe. Principal Barfield, Albemarle High School. The principals and assistant principals and the superintendents watching the program, when students see their peers and their friends with their eyes rolled back on their heads, pale white foaming in the mouth on stretchers, when CPR is being done on them in the hallways as they're being rushed and whisked to the ambulance to send them to the hospital. That has significant mental health impacts.

Do we know what that email was about? That was something that happened at Albemarle High School. On Friday. Yeah. We don't know what it's about because you're not getting any clarity from the school system. Ashley Moyer, Caroline Bishop, Grammy Ward. Thank you for sharing the show. Share the show. Heather Piller, Hayslip. Marijuana is a gateway drug. Yes, I said that. High schoolers these days think they are invincible. We thought we were invincible when we were kids. There's no one in this world that thought he was more invincible than yours truly. Routinely taking the Volvo 740 GLE, the family Volvo that mom and

dad bought because they knew their son was a psychopath, at 110 miles an hour. You ever see a Volvo 1989 740 GLE clock 110 on the odometer? The entire car shakes as if it's having a seizure. I believe it. Like it literally is falling apart while you're driving it. I probably did that 100 times. We all thought we were invincible. The difference is invincibility today involves drugs that you can't sniff out or even find. Drugs that can be disguised or hidden in the palm, not of our finger, but in the crack of our pinky.

That's how small. You're bringing a bag of weed to your house when you were growing up? Smell like a skunk. The neighbor next door was like, what's that smell? What'd you kill, Jerry? It's the 122-minute marker of the talk show.

We have a lot that we are not going to get to today. Put me on a one-shot so I can read the headlines for tomorrow. TV and radio and media and print that are watching this show right now, this better be in your news cycles tomorrow and the next day. on tomorrow's program we'll talk the fact that 22 percent of families in charlottesville are saying they do not make enough money this according to an orange dot report basically one in four families an orange dot report saying they don't have enough money to pay their bills. On tomorrow's show, we'll talk half of Gen Zers, 50% of Gen Zers, according to a lending tree report, say they have a side hustle. And I'll close

the program by saying this. Tony Bennett, the guy who just retired, he had another athlete, Trey Murphy. He now has four basketball players in the NBA that have signed $100 million-plus contracts. Malcolm Brogdon, Joe Harris, DeAndre Hunter, and now Trey Murphy with the New Orleans Pelicans. And on tomorrow's show, we'll talk the city of Charlottesville giving up smart-scale funding for transportation. Free money from the Commonwealth, no, we'll talk the city of Charlottesville giving up smart scale funding for transportation. Free money from the Commonwealth.

No, we're not going to take. City of Charlottesville, what are you doing? The Tuesday edition of the show. I'm Jerry Miller. Thank you.