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12-Year-Old Girl Forced to Take Drug Test to Join Scrapbooking Club
Here you go, folks, the latest in drug-war hysteria: A 12 year old girl wants to join the "scrapbooking club" at her middle school in Milford, Pennsylvania. She can, it seems, on the condition that she pass a drug test:
One day she took home a permission slip. It said that to participate in the club or any school sport, she would have to consent to drug testing.
“They were asking a 12-year-old to pee in a cup,” Kathy Kiederer said. “I have a problem with that. They’re violating her right to privacy over scrapbooking? Sports?”
The New York Times reports
The Kiederers, whose two daughters are now in high school, are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the Delaware Valley School District, with the daughters identified only by their first initials, A. and M. The parents said that mandatory drug testing was unnecessary and that it infringed on their daughters’ rights. (For privacy reasons, they asked that their daughters’ first names not be published.)
A lawyer for the school district declined to comment, citing the pending litigation.
It is difficult to gauge how many middle schools conduct drug tests on students. States with middle schools that conduct drug testing include Florida, Alabama, Missouri, West Virginia, Arkansas, Ohio, New Jersey and Texas.
Read the whole thing here. And then call your local middle school to see what sort of idiotic hoops they're making kids jump through.
But before you go, school yourself on the sad cases from years gone by in which the Supreme Court has ruled that it's all good to require drug tests as a condition for participation in extracurricular activities at public schools. The most recent SCOTUS ruling, in 2002, pathetically involved a girl who participated in choir and an academic quiz team. And acknowledged that students inolved in extracurricular activities are actually less likely to use drugs than kids who don't participate.
Must-reads on the topic:
Jacob Sullum's 2002 story, "Urine — or You're Out: Drug testing is invasive, insulting, and generally irrelevant to job performance. Why do so many companies insist on it?"
Matt Welch's 2006 Los Angeles Times piece, "His Cup Runneth Over with Annoyance"
Greg Beato's "The Golden Age: How Americans Learned to Stop Worrying and Learn to Love Workplace Drug Testing"
Comments
So just what does
So just what does scrapbooking have to do with illicit drug use among 12-year-olds? Norman overlord of the Universe forbid that kids actually get to do things that would decrease their propensity to turn to drugs.
Who is having to foot the bills for all of these unnecessary tests? What is the logic in forcing the kids with a lower incidence of drug abuse to take expensive tests, while the kids with the highest incidence are left alone?
Lethal1ty: they're not testing for performance enhancing drugs at elementary school level, they're testing for illegal substances.
Gotta get the kids ready for a lifetime of intrusive and unnecessary medical tests for faulty political reasons and because someone stands to make a buck from all the testing.
"Gotta get the kids ready for
"Gotta get the kids ready for a lifetime of intrusive and unnecessary medical tests for faulty political reasons and because someone stands to make a buck from all the testing."
Yep. Just wait until the Dominionists take over. All little girls must report for a virginity exam. And the sheep just shuffle on in, one at a time to get their vaginas checked for intruders.
Umm actually they use an all
Umm actually they use an all around test that tests for a wide assortment of chemicals. It is simply easier to use both the same policy and tests throughout all extracurricular activities. Otherwise it would seem rather academically discriminatory. Where do we draw the line on who has to take these tests? What does scrapbooking have to do with illegal drug use? Have you every seen someone high on meth with a pair of scissors? That would answer your question rather quickly. Also, it is good to keep kids out who are doing drugs so that they do not expose the others to these substances. "One bad apple" and all that.
Wow what an absolutely
Wow what an absolutely idiotic article. It is generally considered healthy practice to test athletes participating in extracurricular activities to ensure they are not getting some sort of chemical advantage. The thing is, where do you draw the line? It is just a more effective to test for all extracurricular activities. In debate you don't want to have to face kids who are abusing stimulants to get that edge. It is right that the parents hid their child's names from this article, so they wouldn't be EMBARASSED by their parents stupidity. "My little girl needs to pee in a cup! Waaaaah!" I take it then that she has also never taken her child to a pediatrician. This isn't a degrading practice. At heart it is simply for the protection of students and to promote fairness, even if in some circumstances it does seem arbitrary. You don't want your kid to take the drug test? Guess what. They don't need to be in the scrapbooking class. You want you child in a certain school but dont want her to have to wear a uniform? Don't go to that school. Learn that society isn't going to make exceptions for you just because you want to whine. To the author: see what kinds of "stupid hoops" kids have to jump through to get into these activities? I wasn't aware that pissing in a cup was that much of a challenge. Perhaps Ive just got those mad skills at cup peeing. Anyone who has a serious problem with this is probably either hiding something, or has never interacted with middle-high school alumni in a public school setting. Wanna talk about paranoia? Just look at the author. BOOM!
What a mess this post is! You
What a mess this post is! You ramble through uniforms, fantasize that people get to send their kids to any school, ignore the fact that this is a 12 year old girl seeking mad skills at scrapbooking.
You really think schools have any ability to halt drug use? Hell, they can't even stop bullying! For that matter, they barely educate your little muffins.
You're rambling on about non-sequitur issues that don't apply, speculating on the personal intrusion of pee in a cup being a marginal annoyance, all the while overlooking one key factor.
There go our personal freedoms down the drain a little bit more. BOOM! Whatever the fuck THAT is supposed to mean. Is writing funny noises your compensation for being unable to hold up your side in a debate? SNAP! FWOOSH! pSSSHHHT. FOOOOM! --Tom Cruise
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No one is forcing anyone to
No one is forcing anyone to "pee in a cup". Public schools establish policies. If a parent does not approve of that policy they are free to try to change it or even remove their child from that school. I doubt these parents even bothered to ask their daughter her opinion, but no one is forcing the girl to do anything. Every employer I had after 1986 required drug testing as a condition of employment but I was free to work elsewhere if I did not care to participate. That's freedom too. Making your own individual choices & accepting the consequences of your choices is something every child should learn. They already know how to whine about not getting our own way.
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