Finding the Drugs
I was
talking to my niece yesterday about her high school experience. She’s just finished up her associate’s degree
and was accepted to the University of Nevada at Las Vegas (UNLV). She mentioned she was a bit upset about the
drug testing that was going on back at her high school in Oklahoma. I guess it wasn’t what she considered “fair”.
Now I’m
not in favor of drugs and think drug testing is a good idea. But I guess this school in Oklahoma wasn’t
quite doing it right. My niece said no
one on the football team was tested.
Actually, that’s not true. One
kid’s mother was doing her own home drug testing and her son was showing
positive for drugs there. She contacted
the school and wanted him tossed off the football team, but the school
refused. They also refused to do any
drug tests on him themselves because if he came up positive, he wouldn’t be
able to play football.
Football
aside, if a student wanted to participate in any other extracurricular activity
they had to be drug tested. If you
failed, you weren’t allowed to participate in the activity anymore. The chess club was totally decimated mostly
because there was only one kid in the school who had joined the chess club, and
he failed his random test. Consequently
he was told he could no longer play chess.
Some
members of the school band failed their drug test and were told they could no
longer play instruments. So the
band then no longer had a percussion or woodwind section and only one trumpet
player was left. Two cheerleaders were no longer allowed to participate and
several members of the “flag team” were told they could no longer carry or wave
flags.
One kid
who liked to sit in the library when not in class failed the drug test and was
told he could no longer sit in the library.
How dare he read books after not passing a drug test!
Now if a
student was selected for drug testing they had approximately half an hour to
fill a bottle with urine. If you couldn’t
fill the bottle in the allotted time, you failed the test. So if you used the bathroom before getting to
school you’d still better produce some piss in half an hour, or else! The testing company didn’t have much
time! Perhaps the testing employees
should have been tested a bit themselves?
So in a way, the drug testing wasn’t about whether or not a student was
actually testing positive for any kind of drugs, it was more about being able
to piss on demand. And the kids who
couldn’t do that were told they could no longer participate in things. What a great life lesson, huh?
In case
you’re curious, my niece was not selected for testing probably because she didn’t
participate in any extracurricular activities.
She spent most of her time studying.
If she had been selected and failed the test perhaps the school would
have told her she could no longer study?
Either learn to piss on command or we’ll take away all your books!
Now yes,
I understand the importance of trying to keep drugs out of schools. And I went through something a bit like this
while in the U.S. Air force. We would
have random drug checks, but you would be put in a room and couldn’t leave
until you filled the provided cup with urine, however we weren’t given a half
hour time limit. As long as you didn’t
leave the room before filling the cup, you could wait a few hours if need be
because you didn’t have to pee at the moment.
The military understood that some airmen go to the bathroom before going
to their work place!
So is this school in Oklahoma really interested in stopping drug use? Or are they more interested in making money for the drug testing company that will fail a student for not being able to pee on command? It’s sad when a place gets this corrupt, especially a supposed “learning institution”.
