Drug Testing in High School Athletics
Drug Testing in High School Athletics? "Kids do as kids see" is a popular statement you hear often. This is true to a certain extent. When a baby is growing up, him/her mimics other people's moves and actions to help he/she learn. However, this statement becomes totally untrue when that baby becomes a teenager and decides to enter an athletics program in high school. Each person has choices and rights under a wonderful document put together by our forefathers: the Constitution. Or do they? This document is now being revised by the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, their revisions are designed to further their own personal beliefs and end up ignoring the overall outcome. In a majority 6-3 decision June 26th, 1995, the Supreme Court upheld random testing for drugs in public high school athletic programs. A statement released by Justice Antonin Scalia asserted that, "Fourth Amendment rights...are different in public schools than elsewhere." This is a bold but completely outrageous statement. In all my years of U.S. history classes I don't recall the Constitution designating any restrictions to the Amendment. Moreover, I personally believe that it is horrifying that any group of people, even t
tests to consistently prove their innocence, and by doing so waste our very really are? They could be anyone from the stars of the band to the nullify the rights of children in public schools. The Supreme Court's main argument is dictated in a statement made by schools. According to Justice Scalia, "I seems that a drug problem fueled ineffective and much too costly overall. shown insecurity about its decision by suggesting that problems may arise
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