I noticed in the Oct. 13 article about the Lake Stevens High School drug testing that some of the administrators were tested in addition to the students. (“School launches drug test program.”)
I applaud the students for passing their testing. However, I noticed that the results of the administrators were strangely left out of the article.
Did they all pass too?
In principle, I am against drug testing of students; I feel that it is not the school district’s place to test students for drugs “randomly.”
However, if drug use is suspected in any particular student, the district should notify the parents. Then it should be the parents’ responsibility to test and deal with their own child.
In addition, it is somewhat of a joke to test only the students in extracurricular activities.
It’s actually really no surprise that they would all pass.
I would imagine that the real problem would be the students who do not take part in activities.
Was there any parental notification of who was to be tested?
Which drugs exactly did they test for?
The bigger problem than marijuana would be abuse of prescription drugs, such as Ritalin, etc.
They don’t, or can’t, test for these dangerous “legal” drugs.
I feel the focus should be drug education, and let the kids use the information to make the important decisions to not use drugs and succumb to peer pressure.
I think most of these young adults are smart enough to figure out that drugs are a waste of time and brain energy, and the students are most likely more informed about what is out there drug-wise than the school district.
Scott Hearldson
Everett
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