Pubdate: Mon, 26 Aug 2002
Source: Daily Advertiser, The (LA)
Copyright: 2002 South Louisiana Publishing
Contact:  http://www.theadvertiser.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/1670
Author: M.M. Thibodeaux
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/testing.htm (Drug Testing)
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/youth.htm (Youth)

TAKING DRUG TEST LIKE TAKING TEST IN SCHOOL

I disagree with the letter in the Aug. 15 edition about the Supreme Court 
considering a case which could make it mandatory for students to take a 
drug test for after school activities is off base.

The young girl from Mississippi thinks this is violating the 4th Amendment 
(her rights). The letter writer thinks the test would make people look upon 
him as a bad person just like putting a label on him.

A drug test is just like a test you take in the classroom. If you don't do 
drugs you pass the test (A+). If you do drugs you fail the test (F). Simple 
as can be.

What in the world makes anyone think that they are so high and mighty that 
they can believe only those who participate in school functions do drugs. 
Think again.

I think that if they can take God and prayers out of our schools they 
surely can take drugs out.

I have, as recently as two weeks ago, spoken to my state and local 
officials about passing a bill about having eighth-through 12th-graders who 
attend school in Louisiana tested for drugs.

Athletes and students who participate in after-school functions are by far 
not the ones who do drugs! Walk the streets and malls on Friday and 
Saturdays. Recognize the athletes and after-school participants and the 
ones who do drugs. They drag the malls, drink, sit on their duffs and then 
talk about not wanting to take a drug test.

The letter writer can do me a favor. Take a drug test. Prove you are 
drug-free and you earned an A+.

M.M. Thibodeaux, Church Point
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