Drug use is soaring at Stuyvesant HS, whistleblowers say.
And it’s not just pot. There have been seven drug-related 911 calls — two for narcotics sales — at the elite school’s downtown address in the last two years, and sources say hallucinogens are also on the rise.
“LSD is a big thing,” a teacher said. “They brag about it.”
In the last two academic years, cops have been summoned to the school 77 times by 911 calls, NYPD data show.
“We’re shocked that the cops are called so many times,” a teacher said. “But the kids are like, ‘Oh, you want to bring the police in, we’re going to retaliate.’ ”
A 17-year-old senior was arrested on school grounds Sept 16. for possession of a controlled substance, the NYPD says. And three students got high before a school trip last November to upstate colleges, with one ending up fainting.
“Her eyes rolled in back of her head, and she passed out. Faculty said they literally thought she was dying,” recalled a teacher, who said the kids were smoking pot.
But students said only a small percentage of the school population uses drugs. One worried the school’s students were getting a bad reputation.
“It follows you to college,” she said.
One school source said pot use, at least, is falling.
“We haven’t smelled it in the bathroom in two years,” the person noted.
Suspensions have soared at the school since Principal Zie Zhang took over in 2012 after Stanley Teitel resigned amid a cheating scandal.
In 2012-2013, the latest period for which data is available, there were 69 “principal’s suspensions” of students and 24 “superintendent’s suspensions,” the DOE says. There were fewer than 20 total the year before.
The DOE blamed the rise on the cheating scandal.
Sources said the school brought in an assistant principal, Brian Moran, whose chief task is to “monitor the kids and their drugs.”
Some blame Zhang, branding her a “Tiger Mom” who disdains therapy.
“You deal with your own problems,” a teacher said, describing school officials’ attitude. “All they know about is punishment.”
Additional reporting by Helayne Seidman