Students peddling drugs to classmates, say teachers

STUDENTS are acting as drug couriers and every pupil knows where to buy illegal substances, a teachers’ conference heard yesterday.

Tough laws are restricting schools from expelling students who sell drugs to other teenagers, the Association of Secondary Teachers Ireland annual convention in Limerick heard yesterday.

A debate on the problem of student discipline heard that classrooms are being ruled by those who are taking and selling drugs, being violent towards teachers and disruptive in many other ways.