Posted on 06/12/2014 7:23:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
After Michael and Melinda May's daughter was drug-tested five times in three years at Susquenita Middle School, they refused to sign a permission slip allowing it to happen again.
Leila May was drug-tested once during her fifth grade year, once in sixth grade and three times as a seventh grader because Susquenita School District randomly tests students in grades five through 12 who participate in extracurricular activities and apply for parking permits.
Without the permission slip signed, Leila was unable to participate in the National Junior Honor Society during her eighth-grade year, which ended last week. But Melinda May said that's what had to happen to ensure the 14-year-old wouldn't have to face another "embarrassing" urine test. All of Leila's tests came back negative, she said.
"We were so tired of this happening over and over again, so we said 'what can we do to make it stop?' We took her out of NJHS because of it," Melinda May said. "It's sad that this is what we had to resort to. It's ridiculous."
Michael May said he and his wife "went to the principal, school board, superintendent – they're all lame on this issue. We even contacted the ACLU. They said it was concerning, but sadly, legal."
"We pulled Leila out of National Honor Society over it," he continued. "That's what caused her to be tested, my straight-A student."
The Duncannon residents aren't the only parents fired up over the district's random drug-testing policy. Kristin Cassell's 10-year-old daughter, Natalie, who just completed the fifth grade, was tested three times last school year.
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Absolutely astounding.
And I wonder how many of the faculty would pass their own endless battery of tests?
People on welfare, food stamps, WIC, SSI, HUD, Section 8 housing don’t have to be drug tested? 10 year old girls do. How about the teachers are they testing the teachers? Adminstrators? How about the school board? What a world we live in!
Bull- it’s not “random”
their daughter meets some profiling criteria to make the tested sample look “random”, and that is why she was repeatedly selected
maybe they test the honor society achievers repeatedly to even out testing the mass of troublemaking underachievers
and it’s not just pee in a cup, its “pee in a cup while the teacher watches you”
In my first ten years in the Air Force....I got called in three times for the urine test...no issue. Then I hit some space where they called me six times in six months. After the fourth occasion, I complained to the first sgt that there was something wrong with the random selection process. On the fifth occasion in five months...I had a two minute conversation with the commander. Finally after the sixth time....the base came to admit that there was some faulty data that triggered the system to be non-random. They actually admitted that there were around fifteen of us on base who’d done it six times in six months...which is almost impossible if it was random selection.
I’d be curious in this case how they defined random and made the program work. The geeky kid in school might be in charge of the random selection data program?
I’m with the school on this one. Your kid’s in the National Honor Society? Yep, that’s a warning sign for drug use alright. /s
Random drug tests are a good thing for truck drivers and pilots. For the rest of us, it’s a violation of our right to privacy.
It is also a waste of tax payer dollars.
Completely ridiculous.... When did we completely give up on the concept of Freedom? And, being secure in our person, places and things?
I’m old enough to remember a time no one even bothered about this sort of thing except in the case of ‘reefer addicts’ - and there were d*mned few of THEM.
How about nobody gets tested? What happened to the idea of presumed innocent?
January 21, 2009, IIRC.
“...randomly tests students in grades five through 12 who participate in extracurricular activities and apply for parking permits.”
Oh, I see, so those who do NOT participate in extras are not tested. So yes, penalize those that are more motivated.
That would be fine as well. But why the Hell are working people subjected to this? While the lay abouts, who are selling and using in a majority of cases getting a free pass?
Heck my employment says pee in the cup for your desk job or you will pay inflated insurance premiums that only the top management can afford, peon!
Not to say your event was random, just that randomness exhibits "clumping". We tend to think that if 1/100 people are called each month, that we'll get called once each hundredth month. But that would be a "regular" or ordered schedule, not a random one.
As a base (Ft Leavenworth) drug testing NCO, I can tell you that the “random” aint always random. Many times we get tips from police or outside drug enforcement agencies and the test a group with specific intent to catch an individual. The attempt is made to make things look random so as to protect informants or other information gathering resources.
For example, a group of individuals frequented a specific location on the fort to smoke. On a tip from a passer by who smelled pot, the CID put up a hidden camera to monitor the location. To there surprise, there were dozens of people lighting up on a regular basis. Apparently, this location was considered a safe zone by the smokers. If each were then ordered to take a drug test, the location would quickly be compromised. Instead, the CID lead investigator would identify an individual and then go to his commander to “screen” the platoon or section or even “random” sample a bunch of names. Next week, next month, another individual would be identified and the process repeated.
If you think about it, the achievers and free thinkers are the ones who most need to feel the boot of the government, if the government is to maintain its boot.
It's for the children. Drugs are bad, mmkay?
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