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Posted on 12/27/2005 9:30:24 AM PST by wallcrawlr
BEMIDJI, Minn. — Random drug testing could come soon to Cass Lake-Bena and Forest Lake districts as parents and educators look for new ways to combat drug use by teens.
The issue of drug use has dominated the headlines near Cass Lake in northwest Minnesota, where there were four separate homicides during two months this fall. Drugs are thought to have been a factor in some of those deaths.
It was enough to prompt Dan Ninham, the Cass Lake-Bena High School basketball coach, to suggest random drug testing for all middle and high school students involved in athletics and other extracurricular activities.
It won't cure all the community's ills, he said, but it might help.
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In his proposal to the school board, he also offered to make himself and his staff available for testing. Ninham said that was unprecedented in the United States.
Many teachers and school officials have given their support to the proposal. So have leaders of the Leech Lake Indian Reservation, of which Cass Lake is the largest community.
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Forest Lake school board member Joe Grafft said it's wrong to think that kids involved in activities won't be involved in drugs. His district will decide next month whether to begin considering random drug testing.
"The high school kids that are athletes or are in activities are at the same parties as the kids that aren't, and they have the same issues,'' said Grafft. "When you look at statewide, 78 percent of kids tried marijuana before they get out of high school. Almost 90 percent are drinking before they get out of high school. I think that that myth is gone.''
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They should do random drug tests on teachers. Half the teachers I know smoke dope and do other drugs on a regular basis. In California you would loose 1/4 of all teachers for pissing dirty. Admin as well.
1. CONFUSION
2. CLASS POSITION
3. INDIFFERENCE
4. EMOTIONAL DEPENDENCY
5. INTELLECTUAL DEPENDENCY
6. PROVISIONAL SELF-ESTEEM
7. ONE CAN'T HIDE The seventh lesson I teach is that one can't hide. I teach children they are always watched, that each is under constant surveillance by myself and my colleagues. There are no private spaces for children, there is no private time. Class change lasts three hundred seconds to keep promiscuous fraternization at low levels. Students are encouraged to tattle on each other or even to tattle on their own parents. Of course, I encourage parents to file their own child's waywardness too. A family trained to snitch on itself isn't likely to conceal any dangerous secrets. The 7-Lesson Schoolteacher by John Taylor Gatto
I'd only submit to a drug test if the principal held the cup.
There's nothing more dangerous than a stoned chess player or violinist.
Like alcohol was a factor in many homicides during Prohibition?
...It won't cure all the community's ills, he said,...
But it will help condition the students for their future role as Sheeple.
In her mouth.
And parents consider homeschool.
Sounds like a plan to me: "Sorry about your shoes Teach."
This plan is objectionable not only because of civil liberties implications but even more because it won't accomplish anything.
It is usually painfully obvious when someone is abusing drugs. The school staff are too cowed by political correctness and fear of ACLU-types to single anyone out. This plan gives them a "solution" that doesn't involved any heavy lifting or require judgment.
They don't care if it actually works but, then again, when has the government ever cared about results?
Teachers should be random tested as most people are in industries involved in fed contracts. Having kids p tested doesn't do much good since the juvenile justice systems in most areas are a joke - release the child back to the parents where the problem probably started. I say you randomly post a drug dog at the entrance/exits and when the dog barks you grab the kid and pinch him till he sings about his supplier - THE ART TEACHER!
LOL my kids refer to the art teacher and an english teacher as pot heads
They did a schoolwide debate on this topic at my school and if anyone ever so much as had the balls to suggest I take an RDT, I would drop out of absolutely everything extracurricular- and I've never done drugs once. I have seen street drugs destroy people's lives, but it's not the school's job to save them. Plus, you can only test those students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities and most of the druggies in my school do nothing extracurricular. Thus, it is a WASTE of MY TAXPAYER DOLLARS.
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