Students returning to school next month look forward to new experiences: new status, new classes, new teachers, new activities. What also awaits many of them are new rules, and in some cases a new student random drug testing policy. Several school districts - Booneville and Prentiss, Itawamba and Tishomingo counties among them - are implementing the new policies for the 2006-07 academic year. Five other school districts in the region also have drug-testing policies for some or all their students. "Our students deserve a safe and secure environment to learn, and this policy is designed to ensure that," said Malcolm Kuykendall, Tishomingo County's newly appointed superintendent. [continues 719 words]
Some folks' logic baffles me. Would you ever, knowingly do something that would cause you to lose control of your life? Would you ever hand over all of your rights to freewill? I wouldn't. I personally think that self control is just about the only control I can put my hands on in the world. No matter what we do, usually we can't control the actions of other people --- we can't control the weather, we can't control the price of eggs in China... [continues 403 words]
