Student Drug Testing
Jan. 30th, 2004 05:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
annuinCNN.com article
Now they're championing a program where schools can randomly start testing kids for drugs. Now while I understand they test the kids on the school sports teams, for obvious reasons, the fact that they want to expand this to other extra-curricular activities like band and yearbook, and eventually to regular students in general, scares me. How doing drugs would really improve your participation in either yearbook or band is beyond me at that. It's privacy invasion on a large scale.
That said I already disagree with the drug testing stuff they do here for jobs. Yes I'm all for it when you're talking about a job in which the person is responsible for other people (bus driver) or heavy machinery or something that would put others at risk of danger, but not when you're talking about a dead end job filling racks at walmart. You wouldn't even get away with that kind of privacy invasion where I come from.
Big Brother is watching You.
Now they're championing a program where schools can randomly start testing kids for drugs. Now while I understand they test the kids on the school sports teams, for obvious reasons, the fact that they want to expand this to other extra-curricular activities like band and yearbook, and eventually to regular students in general, scares me. How doing drugs would really improve your participation in either yearbook or band is beyond me at that. It's privacy invasion on a large scale.
That said I already disagree with the drug testing stuff they do here for jobs. Yes I'm all for it when you're talking about a job in which the person is responsible for other people (bus driver) or heavy machinery or something that would put others at risk of danger, but not when you're talking about a dead end job filling racks at walmart. You wouldn't even get away with that kind of privacy invasion where I come from.
Big Brother is watching You.
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Date: 2004-01-31 07:59 am (UTC)Re:
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Date: 2004-01-31 10:57 am (UTC)Either way, much as I wouldn't want any kids of mine doing drugs, I don't think drugtesting at school is the way to go, nor do I welcome that kind of invasion of privacy. If my kid is on the school sports team, test away... other than that, stay the fuck away from him/her.