cjohnson

"I think what bothers me most is parents speaking out against testing. What the hell is wrong with you people? How is it a bad thing to test your kids for drugs? Do you not realize they're risking their livelihood as an adult before they're even considered one? Or are you just scared of being called out for bad parenting?"

Because these schools are stomping on parents rights. It should be the prerogative of the parents, not the government, to drug test their kids and to act appropriately on the results of those tests as they see fit as parents. Mandated drug testing by the government is pretty much telling parents that they don't trust us to be parents. I am also seriously concerned with how the school administrators have quickly hustled this program without seriously educating parents about the limitations of urine testing. This type of drug test is the least accurate and does not detect weekend use of many of the commonly abused drugs. By making parents think govt-mandated urine tests are the "silver bullet" to teen drug use, fewer parents will see any point in talking to their kids about drugs.

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