10/03/2026
Good Evening Middle School Parents! Sorry for posting so late, I was tied up with football practice and a project when I arrived home.
Today I spent time discussing fentanyl awareness with the 6th through 8th students. This weeks discussion wasn’t as in depth as the HS presentation. It was more of a conversation about how to make good decisions based on gathering information. We kept it to the same classroom type setting.
I kept it pretty simple due to their age and maturity. An example I used about making a good decision involved donuts. Of course they had a good laugh along with learning some key points. Making them laugh while learning seems to work.
The scenario involves me walking into the teachers workroom and seeing two big boxes of beautiful donuts. So I asked them “Do I walk over and just eat 2 or 8 of them?! Or should I investigate where they came from?” Most everyone thought it was a good idea to see who brought them.
Then I tell them I yell into the main office where Ms. Ashely and Ms. Dawn are usually located. I say “Hey, what’s the story on the donuts?!” Dawn yells back “Oh, I was in Chandler this morning, so I grabbed a couple of dozen!” I smile at eat them! But what if Dawn said “Some lady who I don’t know stopped by and left them. She said she went to school here a long time ago”. So then I asked the kids if I should eat them. Most said “Noooo!!!” Some of your kids said “I’m eating them!”
In this particular scenario I was able to point out the importance of knowing and trusting where things we might eat originated from.
We used this process to discuss why we should probably not take things from people that could be harmful to us. Those items included v**es, medicine, food, and/or candy. I even used the scenario of one kid hiding a v**e in their stinky shoe, then gave it to another kid who routinely picks his nose, and then the third kid is now puffing on it… of course after that chain of custody, it didn’t seem like a great idea. I also told them they would be lucky if that’s the only places where the v**e was hidden.
I kept it relevant but also appropriate. 6th graders didn’t get the same exact talk as 8th graders. Today definitely reminded me how much of a difference there is in those age groups.
Please reach out to me with any questions you might have!
S.R.O. Randy Chapa
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