Education: Drugs in schools: adults failing the challenge*

Speaking from direct experience, a former school teacher reveals how prevalent drugs are in some Australian schools and the ambiguous response of teachers and parents to the problem.“Where there is the challenge of the growing boy or girl, let there there be an adult to meet the challenge. If parent-figures abdicate, then the adolescents must make a jump to a false maturity.” — D.W. Winnicott, child and adolescent psychiatrist and psychoanalystThose pushing to legalise drugs argue we have …

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