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Drug Testing Students

In a landmark ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled six to three in Vernonia School District vs. Acton that schools could randomly test student athletes for drug use and the Todd case in the US 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998 extended the right to all participants in extracurricular activities. I agree with the previous case law and because of it, I will affirm the resolution. Resolved: United States schools are justified in drug testing students who participate in extracurricular activities.

I will offer the following definitions to clarify any uncertainty. All definitions are from the Merriam Websters Collegiate Dictionary of 2001.

Justified - proving or showing to be just, right, or reasonable

Drug - a substance other than food intended to affect the structure or function of the body

Testing - critical examination, observation, or evaluation

Extracurricular - of or relating to officially or semiofficially approved and usually organized student activities connected with school

OB 1 - Because of what the resolution implies, we should limit the debate to currently illegal drugs.

Today’s debate is about whether society’s want to combat the


C - And in order to achieve the value of societal progress, the affirmative offers the value of Community. Community can be defined as a unified body of individuals. To achieve societal progress there must be a community that is willing to work together to better man.

“The trouble with the old cult of progress was that it deliberately blinded itself to the costs of change. The trouble with the new cult of no-progress is that it can too easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy. It gives up on science, gives up on institutions - and ultimately gives up on humanity.” Having a community filled with drug abusers and drug sellers rejects any change or chance for progress. No value other than progress has been more important in Western civilization for many years. This value has been the root of all civilization and letting drugs fester in communities would decrease any possibility of progress.

Justice Clarence Thomas stated, “Schoolchildren are routinely required to submit to physical examinations and vaccinations against disease. Securing order in the school environment sometimes requires that students be subjected to greater controls than those app

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