Drug Testing: Schools Police for Drugs
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There is a trend in schools across the nation to test for drugs. Some schools are testing students involved in athletics. Other schools are covering all extra circulatory activity - yes, if you play the tuba in the school band, you might be tested.
This drug testing costs is expensive:
“Random student drug testing is part of a larger trend across the country, one that has seen the National Department of Education spend $1.6 million on random student drug testing this year.
Texas, Florida and New Jersey recently mandated steroid testing for all of its high school athletes.”
link: Bullitt to test student athletes for drugs
That amount of funding could add teachers, books, computers and numerous other resources to schools. And, undoubtedly, this amount of funding will increase in the coming years. There is a shift in the the responsibilities of the schools. With the drug testing, the schools take it upon themselves to police the students. It delivers a clear message to the parents that they are not able to do the job. Similarly, some schools are conducting obesity tests. Perhaps some parents are not feeding their children properly. The state will determine that.
Catherine Forsythe
Tags: schools, drug testing, funding, parents, obesity
One Comment
shadowmyth
August 6th, 2007
at 6:38pm
The point is to dumb us down, why would they support real education? Intelligent slaves, don’t stay slaves. The school system is nothing but force fed empty facts and government propaganda.
I remember when I was like 6, they stuck me in some new experimental program. They said I didn’t mesh well with the other children and they were going to be put in me in *pre-first*, instead of first grade. I was the first, and only class to go through this program. It was scrapped about midway. In kindergarten, I had really learned a lot, due to an exceptional teacher. In pre-first, we sat around and did nothing, took naps, and played. It was very boring. Fortunately there were a lot of parental complaints, and we were let loose of that weirdness.
Funding for useless and downgrading activities. If they want to get these kids off drugs, why don’t they see these children as real people? People take drugs because they are alienated by society, this only furthers such alienation. A close society though will draw together in unity, and that is not what big brother wants. Divide and conquer.