Supreme Courts Finds In Favor Of School Drug Tests -- Central Oklahoma Mensa

Supreme Courts Finds In Favor Of School Drug Tests

Posted in Intelligence on July 2, 2002

In a 5 to 4 vote, the Supreme Court ruled against a former Tecumseh, OK high school student who claimed the school’s drug testing policy violated her civil rights. What do you think — should schools be able to test anybody who wants to participate in an extracurricular activity?

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Posted by goatgrrl at July 8, 2002 02:01 PM

The Oklahoma Gazette offers a story titled "Safe and Free?" in their July 4, 2002, issue. The online version doesn't include the last few paragraphs (the ones I liked best), so you'll have to pick up a free copy of the newletter (they list their distribution locations on the website) to read it. Basically, the idea was that our nation has come to a point where it thinks random drug tests are a sufficient alternative to simply testing when indicators are present. By teaching school children that the government has the right to search/test them even if they've given no reason to suspect wrongdoing, we're raising a generation that no longer expects privacy. Author Micheal Salem asks a seemlingly important question: If the reason they only do random tests now is the prohibitive cost, will technological advances someday make it cheap enough to do mandatory drug tests on everyone?