I mean I cannot quantify it exactly, but I just know in the mid sized town that I grew up in, my mother worked at a middle school and later an elementary school, and I briefly worked at the middle school. In a class of probably 200 kids, I would say 40 or so kids had active drug users as parents maybe 15 were meth, 15 crack/coke, and the remainder a smattering of other substances.
Also a lot of parents with gang involvement. One kids house got riddled with automatic gunfire in the middle of the night as part of a gang retaliation. :/ kid was fine but, damn. The situation here in certain places in the USA is truly dire.
There is just no way that 7% of parents in the US are using meth, or even 10% are using drugs (outside of alcohol, tobacco, weed). There just is no way that is accurate at all.
I didn't say that. I said that at the school that I worked at, those are the rough numbers. While this is not the norm, it is not unusual in rural American schools.'
The national average, however, is obviously not close at all. There are probably many entire districts where the number is 0
