I found this article on The New York Times webpage. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/23/nyregion/new-jersey/23Rparent.html?_r=1&ref=education
It is about random drug testing in school. I really dont know what to make of this. How can teachers complain about parents wanting them to raise their children for them? Isn’t this basically what a policy that gives schools the right to test students for drugs doing just that? Isn’t that a parents job to decide if they want to drug test their own children. And really, what good is that going to do? I guess maybe if I was a parent, I would want to know if my child was getting drunk before school, but I would hope that a drunk teen would be noticeable. If someone is under suspicion of using drugs, they probably are. I just don’t think it is wise for schools to start parenting their students even more than they already do. Parenting takes practice. That means mistakes will be made. So let them make their own mistakes. I think the reason that the Supreme Court passed the law saying that students could be drug tested was so that athletes wouldnt be taking performance enhancing drugs. Lets leave it at that, shall we?
