"It's not like we are a high-risk group for coming in drunk or high or stoned or whatever," said one volunteer. "This is just a common-sense issue - why are we spending tax money to test 75-year-old grandmothers for marijuana? We should be using that money to buy more books and computers."
Amen sister! Of course this begs the question, "Why should a public institution spend any money to drug test employees or students?" Schools can find money to get teenagers to pee in cups when it could be better spent on books, computers or pay raises for teachers.
Speaking of teachers, a school principal in Charleston was arrested for alleged cocaine possession. Oh goodness! Won't someone please think of the children? Oh the audacity of the authority figures entrusted with the care of our children, to be as fallible and human as the rest of us.
Besides the safety issue, what kind of example is being placed in front of our students by personnel — whom they are told to learn from, respect and hold up as role models — who are breaking the law?
Random drug testing of school teachers and principals is the predictable knee-jerk reaction. It is apparent that the author of the editiorial did not give any thought to the negative consequences to implimenting random drug testing. Such as the excessive cost and the invasion of privacy.
At least there is a little common sense to balance out the lunacy. An editorial from the Charleston Daily Mail expresses the opinion that random drug testing is an expensive and unwarranted invasion of privacy. Let's hope that common sense will prevail, but if that were the case we would never have declared a "War on (Some) Drugs" in the first place.
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