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Education Department Awards Schools $7.2 Million To Enact Random Student Drug Testing

 

October 27, 2005 - Washington, DC, USA

 

Washington, DC: Federal grants totaling more than $7 million will be used to pay for the establishment of random student drug testing in 350 schools nationwide, according to an announcement last week by the US Department of Education (DOE).

 

According to the agency, school districts in 21 states will receive federal grant money to implement drug testing programs for the 2005-2006 school year. Of the 21 states receiving funding, schools in Texas will receive the largest allocation of federal moneys, approximately $2.4 million.

 

Earlier this year, the White House sponsored a series of regional summits to encourage middle and high-school officials to enact random drug testing in public schools for students who participate in extracurricular activities or drive to campus. In addition, the Bush administration recently proposed increasing the amount of federal funds available to pay for student drug testing programs by more than 150 percent to a record $25.4 million annually.

 

NORML Senior Policy Analyst Paul Armentano strongly criticized the White Houses' push for the expanded use of student drug testing, stating: "Random drug testing of students is a humiliating, invasive practice that runs contrary to the principles of due process. It compels teens to submit evidence against themselves and forfeit their privacy rights as a necessary requirement for attending school. Rather than presuming our school children innocent of illicit activity, suspicionless drug testing presumes them guilty until they prove themselves innocent. Is this truly the message the Bush administration wishes to send America's young people?"

 

Armentano added that the only federally commissioned review examining the effectiveness of student drug testing programs found the policy to have no discernible impact on youth drug use. The 2003 study of 76,000 students by the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, concluded, [/u]"At each grade level - 8, 10, and 12 - the investigators found virtually identical rates of drug use" in schools that drug tested versus those that did not.

For more information, please contact Paul Armentano, NORML Senior Policy Analyst, at (202) 483-5500. A complete list of grantees is available online from the Department of Education at:

http://www.ed.gov/programs/drugtesting/awards.html

 

updated: Oct 27, 2005

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I don't think it's a good idea.

 

If i had kids the last thing i would want is some pencil necked, anal retentive school teacher with a chip on his shoulder and a personal dislike for my kids hounding them with drug tests untill they end up with a record or an attitude that they don't stand a chance so why should they try.

 

Do you remember that one teacher who was always dogging your steps, making life tough for you and was always ready with some throw away line about how they only have your best interests at heart as they demand ot rifle through your bag as you step off the bus on the first day of term? I do. I also remember having a reputation as a drug dealer before i had even seen pot and i paid for it for all my high school years.

 

School is hard enough for kids, teen years are hard enough. No one wants to see them come unstuck but i would much rather my kids smoked a bit of pot than got on the wrong side of some new rule or law.

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According to the agency, school districts in 21 states will receive federal grant money to implement drug testing programs for the 2005-2006 school year. Of the 21 states receiving funding, schools in Texas will receive the largest allocation of federal moneys, approximately $2.4 million.

 

Earlier this year, the White House sponsored a series of regional summits to encourage middle and high-school officials to enact random drug testing in public schools for students who participate in extracurricular activities or drive to campus. In addition, the Bush administration recently proposed increasing the amount of federal funds available to pay for student drug testing programs by more than 150 percent to a record $25.4 million annually.

 

wonder why texas is getting almost 10% of that money? might have something to do with the fact that the redneck we know as george dubbya bush came from texas and first stop on the way into america for drug traffickers from mexico is texas :devilred:

 

while i would have told the people trying to force me to have the test to get fucked and that im innocent untill proven guilty and have the right to not incriminate myself, i would have only taken the test on the grounds that no matter what the results, i would not be put in any drug treatment programs or be expelled from the school...if those conditions were not written down and signed by the school principal, i would never take the test and i would expect the same kind of treatment for my child, if their rights were abused and my child was forced into doing the test, i would so sue the school for all the millions they make every year and would force the school to close its doors for good :angry:

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