Ever since our school started random drug testing students in extra-cirruculars last year, I always wondered why not the students who weren't involved in extra-cirriculars. It seemed logical to me, the kids that do not participate in school activities are clearly the ones that need to be tested. The class officers, the captains of the tennis team, the student council members, the Key Clubbers, these are not the students in our school using.
Apparently in 2002, for reasons still unknown to me, the Supreme Court ruled in BOARD OF EDUCATION OF POTTAWATOMIE COUNTY v. LINDSAY EARLS that only kids who are involved in extra-cirrcular activites can be randomly drug-tested. But yet again, Justice O'Connor pulls it out in her dissenting opinion:
Those risks, however, are present for all schoolchildren. ...
The second commonality to which the Court points is the voluntary character of both interscholastic athletics and other competitive extracurricular activities. "By choosing to 'go out for the team,' [school athletes] voluntarily subject themselves to a degree of regulation even higher than that imposed on students generally." Comparably, the Court today observes, "students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities voluntarily subject themselves to" additional rules not applicable to other students.
Students "volunteer" for extracurricular pursuits in the same way they might volunteer for honors classes: They subject themselves to additional requirements, but they do so in order to take full advantage of the education offered them.
I start to admire Justice O'Connor more and more everytime we have to look at cases for gov.
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I think your right, more than people who are involved with things should be tested!
I've never thought of it that way. Thought provoking. Big ups
So true
Michelle
UI undergraduate
Focus: philosophy, biology, education
After reading your article on drug testing, I will tell you that youre on the right track. I am a professional drug/alsohol collector, that test many people throughout the year, from truck drivers to professional sport people. ALL of them professionals, and Non Professional as we call them such as Truck drivers, people that work in sensetive positions such as truck drivers, and so on, all need to be tested. They perform a job that we expect them to do it, clean, and sober. I have many stories that I can give you that people try to circumvent the testing proceedures, but people like me that are qualified, and professional prevent that from happening at about 99%. There will always be that 1% that will outwit the test. Remember only sports players that play professional sports are observed when they provide their urine sample. Truck drivers and other pereonnel are not, so they could hinder the outcome. My feeling is that if they screw up their test,,,There guility !!!!!!! No questions asked!!!
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