Pubdate: Fri, 02 Jan 2009 Source: Garden Island (Lihue, HI) Copyright: 2009 Kauai Publishing Co. Contact: http://kauaiworld.com/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/964 Author: Howard Tolbe DRUG TEST TEACHERS RANDOMLY Mr. Jeff Knope, here's a rude awakening for you ("Love, not pay, draws teachers," Letters, Dec. 31). Even the unruly and disruptive deserve to be educated. But you seem to want teachers to have the power to kick them out of the classroom. Where is the love you mention with this kind of thinking? Also truckers get paid more than teachers because they drive big rigs in dangerous conditions and long hours. Furthermore, Mr. Knope, quit putting words into my opinions. Their is no way in my letter I mention that the children are exempt from drug testing. (We all know that some of the children are on drugs, too.) What I'm simply saying is, "Why are teachers so afraid to be drug tested?" Let them be role models to our students by being a professional and step up to the plate and drug test. After all, the teachers agreed to drug tests in their contracts. If teachers can not afford the drug test, have their teachers union pay for it from their union funds and to ease the pain, drug test randomly. Howard Tolbe 'Ele'ele - --- MAP posted-by: Larry Seguin