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Milford HS to drug-test students in activities, drivers subject to random checks
The Milford School Board on Thursday approved a policy that requires students participating in any co-curricular (band/chorus) or extracurricular (sports, groups) activities and students who apply for a parking permit to be subject to random drug testing.
The Milford School Board on Thursday approved a policy that requires students participating in any co-curricular (band/chorus) or extracurricular (sports, groups) activities and students who apply for a parking permit to be subject to random drug testing.
The article goes on to say that the Surpeme Court has already ruled that random testing for sports/activities are legal, but nothing has ever been done before with parking. Personally, I feel that the whole thing is overstepping their bounds. If the students were having these extras taken away for being stoned at school, then that would be fine, but I feel that they shouldnt be punished for what they choose to do in their own time.
Even though the drugs are illegal, as long as they are being used off of school property and after the student is released from the school, why is it the schools problem? The school would no longer be considered the parent in absentia, so why are they able to now police the childs time outside of the schools jurisdiction?
The other issue with this is that all this new policy does is further remove any responsibility from the parents to care for their children. First parents were able to sit their kids in front of the television/video game system and expect the electronics to raise the kids. Once the children started acting out, the parents were able to blame the TV/video game for making their child that way, since the parent had no hand in rearing.
Now the parents will not have to be responsible for talking to their child about the dangers of substance abuse, because the school will do all of the testing. And if one of these kids manages to get a DUI or arrested for buying drugs, then the parents will most likely sue the school for not catching the problem and taking care of it.