[Alia]

"Our money should be going toward educating young people, not putting them under these surveillance programs," said Jennifer Kern, a research associate at the Drug Policy Alliance, a non-profit group that has frequently criticized U.S. drug policy.

Oh, give it a rest.

Many if not most the schools aren't "educating" anyway. Further, these students need intervention if they are in the "drug culture".

I think it's in the nation's best economy-mind, to do such a thing. I just wish there were a way to go after the pedophiles in pub ed before they sexually abuse the young.

Youngsters, in the drug culture, grow up to be VERY EXPENSIVE adults. And I'm not even going into discussing a wasted life. But purely, from a cost standpoint, especially in a time when the Social Security system is going bust, one might glean that proper intervention in the here and now might just prevent the SS system from going bust EVEN SOONER than projected. And SS is only one of the bleedlines.

[The Worthless Miracle]

That's the parents' job not the schools'.

[wireplay]

You give it a rest.

This doesn't do anything to aid in the education of kids. Just another excuse for the public schools for why they aren't teaching.

Start with teaching the kids and they won't do drugs in the first place. As it is, the public schools are an abomination of social welfare. I'LL teach my kids about drugs, I'LL teach my kids about sex ed.

[Jim Noble]

But purely, from a cost standpoint, especially in a time when the Social Security system is going bust, one might glean that proper intervention in the here and now

What "proper intervention" has a sufficient track record of success to justify public funding to deploy it?

[FreeRadical]

Sorry America is lost on you. Your mindset would make the Founders kick your ass just for after school sport.

You probably like seat belt laws & helmet laws too, huh? And, your tone suggests you probably even believe smoking bans are okay on private property.

Cuba's nice this time of year. They gotta good baseball team. Wonder if they're drug tested?

[thoughtomator]

I don't want my paycheck going to fund drug-testing kids. The schools should be employed in schooling, not introducing kids to life in a nanny state.

[PaxMacian]

Only a fool could believe that this is anything but a useless and expensive project. Those who do drugs in high school are not the ones doing after school activities at school. Anyone who went to public school would know it. It is simply conditioning for further socialist nationalist control by imbeciles that think that there is anything left of social security or that it will be there in the future.

[jmc813]

Youngsters, in the drug culture, grow up to be VERY EXPENSIVE adults.

Why not kill welfare instead of becoming the pee police?