Chris Pappas: “Several of them said that we need to put more emphasis on stopping drugs from coming across the border, north or south.…”

“Several of them said that we need to put more emphasis on stopping drugs from coming across the border, north or south. Many of them mentioned that in their opinion the education system does not solve anything; that there needs to be more younger people closer to their age to speak to them about why doing drugs is not going to do anything for them in their future. Some view that the discipline that they are given is not very good. One of the students spoke that there is a smoking area outside of the school where some of the students congregate to smoke and a teacher or guard gives them some sort of a detention slip as punishment, and that they believe, the students believe, that more needs to be done to prevent even kids from smoking, which I believe is illegal for minors.”