The policy of drug testing in high schools has become a much heated topic of discussion over the past few years. Schools are attempting to stop the use of drugs by randomly testing students in their schools. The majority of the drug testing going on around the nation involves students that take part in sports and other extracurricular activities. This practice exhibits a complete lack of fairness and trust towards young athletes. Drug use obviously does go on with high school students, but singling out athletes for a random drug test is not the solution.
In the summer of 2002 the Supreme Court made it legal for the 23 million high schools and middle schools to receive a drug test before joining an extracurricular activity. This comes just seven years after schools were granted permission to take random urinalysis tests. Although this way of testing (urinalysis) only affects about 5% of the nation’s high schools, my school, ?, uses the policy. (Washington pg1). The main controversy coming out of this ruling has to do with the 4th Amendment of the United States Bill of Rights. The 4th Amendment states that U.S. citizens are guaranteed a right agai
The actual act of drug testing can also stir up a lot of controversy at school and at home. When a kid gets tested for drugs he or she feels that they are being accused of taking drugs.( Drug Testing Fails 1). This causes mistrust among students and their teachers and faculty. If a lot of the teachers in a school support drug testing students are more prone to dislike a particular teacher because they may feel that that teacher thinks they are a drug user. Also, if parents of a student support drug testing the student may feel betrayed by his or her parents and even somewhat angry because of the fact that their own parents think they may be using.
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