It's just a matter of time before science advances to the point where they can also test for things like fat content in the diet,and will be arresting parents for test results.
According to Supervisor for Safety and Alternative Education Phil Hastings,
THIS is the part that upsets ME the most. Notice "Phil's" title? Notice the "Alternative Education" part of his title? This has NOTHING to do with a actual education,and everything to do with replacing the parent with the gooberment as the ultimate authority. He is a propoganda chief,and nothing more. The mystery is why the school board approves the hiring of people like him,and why they pay his most likely VERY inflated salary? I'd be willing to bet old Phil has a Masters in one of more of the mental health fields.
Folks,the way to stop this is take over the local school boards,and refuse to pay their salaries.
Cotinine DOES show up in the urine of people who eat tomatoes, broccoli, eggplant, potatoes, and other vegetables that contain nicotine.
Isn't it amazing that secondhand smoke is "such a killer," but since kids are now being given urine tests in some schools to determine the presence of cotinine, all of a sudden they "don't feel that cotinine from second hand smoke is possible."
''Tobacco does and will affect a larger majority of the students than alcohol or drugs,'' said Gloria Spizey, the county's coordinator for Safe and Drug-Free Schools. ''Tobacco use can be devastating. We felt it needed to stand with the other drugs.''
Screenings can detect cotinine for up to 10 days in regular smokers of about a half a pack, or 10 cigarettes, a day, McAlpin said. Experts say it is unlikely that cotinine would collect in people exposed to secondhand smoke.
Wow.