Drug testing or personal freedoms

DRUG TESTING OR PERSONAL FREEDOMS? Should school officials be allowed to use student and undercover cops as informants within the school, mass suspicionless searches, random urine testing and tactics such as these to deter drug use among students? The answer is no, because these tactics invade personal freedoms. Yet the “Supreme Court has time and again rubber-stamped drug war tactics used against students. The Court has consistently upheld the power of school authorities to curb …

…he or she is impaired. “One would think that drug education and school discipline would seek ultimately to produce more well-balanced adults who function with a sense of moderation and rationality.” Yet, one cannot expect such results from a system that allows such tactics as dragnet searches and urinalysis without probable cause and use programs that reward children to tattle on fellow students and use agents to entrap our young people into becoming drug dealers.