ACLU

The Supreme Court upheld that it was constitutionally right to drug test student athletes at high school and middle school. I am on the fence on this issue. I do not think drug testing is a terrible thing, but I do believe it is an invasion of privacy. It would help keep students safer, but I think a fair amount of kids would want to quit so they do not have to take the drug test, whether it is because of the fact they do drugs or do not want to have their privacy invaded in such a way. I found it interesting when the court said, “We also reject respondents’ argument that the drug testing must presumptively be based upon an individualized reasonable suspicion of wrongdoing because such a testing regime would be less intrusive.” So it is less intrusive to test all student athletes then just the ones that people may have reasonable suspicion of. They also said that if they just tested students that are under suspicion, that it could end up that an unpopular group may be tested more often than another group.

The article about the young girl being strip searched is ridiculous, and not to mention the administrators were looking for ibuprofen. I cannot even imagine what that young girl went through. It would be one thing if it were drugs that the administrators were looking for, but ibuprofen? Come on! A young girl who happened to be an honor roll student, at a junior high should never have to experience anything even close to what this girl went through. As for the drug sniffing dogs, I don’t believe that is a terrible idea. If a student is dumb enough to bring drugs to school, that person should get caught. Of course, a dog might be wrong sometimes, but the school should make it as hard as possible to bring drugs into a learning environment.