Posted on 03/22/2007 2:49:21 AM PDT by Calpernia
Is Big Brother coming to a school near you?
Last month the Pequannock school board made national headlines when it began to randomly administer a new high-tech test - that determines whether a student consumed any alcohol in the previous 4 days.
A few days ago, the Moorestown school board approved a tough new drug and alcohol policy that regulates student behavior 24-7 - even on weekends and over the summer.
Some parents are voicing outrage at what's happening, but Mike Yaple, a spokesman with the New Jersey School Boards Association says there is a State regulation that addresses this very issue- that indicates "schools do have the right to impose a consequence on a student for conduct away from school grounds - it goes on to say that it has to be reasonably necessary for the physical or emotional safety of the student, or other students or staff."
He says "you're seeing a change in attitudes- the absolute realization that drugs ruin lives- and school officials aren't going to turn the other way if kids are doing drugs."
After being contacted by Millennium Radio News for comment, Deborah Jacobs, the Executive Director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey issued a written statement saying "The desire to protect young people from the dangers of drug abuse is understandable, but what kids do over the weekend is their parents' business. The school district is overstepping its authority with a punitive policy that disregards family privacy and parental authority."
Go through here and see how much they want to take over:
http://www.nationalguidelines.org
And the problem is, the schools already took the grant money. So they have to pay the money back if they don't follow the terms.
They are involved in the TTC also:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1803916/posts
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Man, it is getting worse and worse. I have not run into this nuttiness with my kids yet. I guess it is just a matter of time...
Go to google, search using healthy people 2010 plus your state.
They are big time trouble. There big deal will be eminent domain. Their clients are already the oil and gas industry.
Getting back to the article, I think the powers that be are using a word game to take parental rights and implement the nanny state. Once you accept their wording, you have lost. Remember,they can't implement anything until you give up your right as a parent and accept them.
Thanks.
And bump to trashing the treaties!
More and more, it's the schools that act like the children are theirs, and the parents are just a convenience to feed and clothe and house them....
There are some good links on this thread.
Ten years from now we will never recognize the U.S.
BTTT
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1805678/posts
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Sorry about that, I was cross linking, not necessarily pinging.
Evil. I have been drinking wine since I was four. None of their friggin business unless I'm on the clock...
absolutely not. i went to that high school from 1996-2000. kids were still drinking and smoking up then on the weekends, but things never got out of control. recently, my younger cousins (1 who is now a college freshman and another who is a junior at that high school) have been telling me things like drug-sniffing dogs are now being used, random locker checks are being done, heroin (!) is now the drug of choice... ARE YOU KIDDING ME?
those kids are out of control. that school used to have a lot of good teachers and a lot of smart and athletic kids. now it’s a heroin pit. the board of ed is taking a step in the right direction.
Its been a heroin pit for quite sometime. Both of Brick high schools have had plenty of problems. I know....I have adult children that went to both of the schools and they range in age from 29, 28, 25, 24, & 20 yrs old. My son is standing here laughing as he graduated in 2005 and it was a pit then. With plenty of problems with drugs , racial problems and fighting. But as he points out it is what you make of it. You chose your own path in life... Yes the BOE ought to be trying to do anything they can to get it straightened out. My son still has friends in school and they say its awful. As for the drug dogs thats not a new thing....they were there when I was in school and I graduated in 1976. They just brought them in before we got to school or so we were told that. In my day it was just drinking & pot. For the taxes I pay the schools in Brick ought to be the best around.
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