website http://blueblazers.org
One Blazer Blvd. Elkhart, Indiana 46516
Telephone: (574) 295-4700
No email contact on the website for the school or its leaders unfortunatly
Posted on 05/06/2006 4:15:15 AM PDT by freepatriot32
It’s Prom season, when many parents worry about drinking and driving. But one school is taking a proactive approach to keep its students safe.
Elkhart Central High School recently started giving random alcohol breath tests to prom-goers. Roughly, 10-20% of the students will be given the tests, for prom next week, as they drive up to the event.
The school says in two years that they have done it, no students have tested positive.
“I feel that kids need to be aware that this is going on, so that there’s no drunk driving on prom night,” senior Sarah Fischer told NEWS22.
The breathalyzer tests are paid for with the help of a grant from the Indiana Governor’s Council on Impaired and Dangerous Driving.
website http://blueblazers.org
One Blazer Blvd. Elkhart, Indiana 46516
Telephone: (574) 295-4700
No email contact on the website for the school or its leaders unfortunatly
the newest battleground for the nanny staters. Teach childeren early on that they have no freedoms and must be controled by their masters from cradle to grave. Is it anywonder that they had a poll out last year among high school students that said a majority of them think there should be governemnt restrictions on the first amendment? If you dont teach them while they are young that they themselves have freedom they will not respect your freedoms when they grow up and get into positions of power.
It starts from day one now, I saw earlier this year that state troopers in N.M. were given scales and tape measures to enforce "child safety seat laws".
Now I'm not for putting kids at risk but lets be honest, the constant inspections of their person and their fluids and breath, teach them one thing.
You do not belong to yourself.
Slowly the bill of rights is being eliminated, not by legislation, so much as by conditioning.
I saw this on the news awhile back. Someone said they should test the students before they leave. Not as they arrive.
It is a predictable outcome of the war on drugs.
We treat them like kids and we wonder why they don't grow up.
How about teaching kids that drunk driving is a serious crime.I don't really care if the little darlings kill themselves with their behavior,but don't endanger the rest of us.The last drunk teen accident in our area cost the lives of a 28 year old woman and her 7 year old daughter.Two drunk punks age 17 were drag racing and one of them went head-on with the victims.He survived with minor injuries.
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"Blah, blah, blah, whine, moan, bitch, moan, outrage over the strawberries."
No one is required to attend the prom, it is a choice. It is a good idea to ban drunks from attending a prom, especially since drinking is illegal for that age.
The frothing nutcases seem to have taken over FR.
I hope they're checking the band / DJ / chaperones / janitorial staff.
Some people seem intent to just suck all the joy out of life.
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