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Arizona School To Consider Drug Tests For 7th Grad
roboman
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NORTHEAST VALLEY - The Paradise Valley Unified School District is considering testing students as young as those in seventh grade for drugs.
The district sent home a survey to the families of high school students and is giving the survey to middle-school parents during parent-teacher conferences this week, district spokeswoman Judi Willis said.
The survey asks several questions, including whether parents support random drug testing of students in middle and high school if their parents give permission. They also give other possible options, including testing students who drive to school.
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The district already randomly tests high school student-athletes and those in extracurricular clubs.
If a student tests positive, law enforcement is not involved, and there are no disciplinary consequences at the school, but he or she isn't allowed to participate in the sport or club. Parents are also told.
This past summer, Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley offered the district $20,000 to expand the testing, Willis said.
District officials, high school and middle-school principals wanted more parent opinions. Their opinions will determine whether the recommendation is given to the governing board.
Gina Jeanette, who has a daughter at Sunrise Middle School and a son at Horizon High School, supports random drug testing for all students starting in seventh grade.
"It's crucial to hit them at that age," she said. She said she was shocked to hear that when her daughter was in sixth grade, some of the students in her class were experimenting with drugs.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
The district sent home a survey to the families of high school students and is giving the survey to middle-school parents during parent-teacher conferences this week, district spokeswoman Judi Willis said.
The survey asks several questions, including whether parents support random drug testing of students in middle and high school if their parents give permission. They also give other possible options, including testing students who drive to school.
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The district already randomly tests high school student-athletes and those in extracurricular clubs.
If a student tests positive, law enforcement is not involved, and there are no disciplinary consequences at the school, but he or she isn't allowed to participate in the sport or club. Parents are also told.
This past summer, Maricopa County Attorney Rick Romley offered the district $20,000 to expand the testing, Willis said.
District officials, high school and middle-school principals wanted more parent opinions. Their opinions will determine whether the recommendation is given to the governing board.
Gina Jeanette, who has a daughter at Sunrise Middle School and a son at Horizon High School, supports random drug testing for all students starting in seventh grade.
"It's crucial to hit them at that age," she said. She said she was shocked to hear that when her daughter was in sixth grade, some of the students in her class were experimenting with drugs.
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long..."
Comments
Ben
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Kid smokes weed and can't be on the chess team? Who cares? Kid smokes weed and can't play on the football team? Why not? It's not the school's business if the kid's lifestyle outside of school does not interfere with other kids' right to learn.
That theory wouldn't fit in with the EMPLOYERS testing people later on, now would it? Just brain-washing them earlier and earlier, thats all it is.
Merc
"You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. " - Al Capone, (1899-1947)
"Tolerating things you may not necessarily like is part of being free" - Larry Flynt
Using tax dollars to test all the kids in school? Thought they had money problems in America's schools? Apparently not.
I don't support using tax dollars to test kids in school for drugs.
Look at Kerry, Bush, Clinton....they all did drugs and supposedly are the cream of the crop of our nation. Might as well legalize the crap.
IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY RIGHTS - GET OUT OF MY COUNTRY (this includes politicians)