Drug Testing In Public Schools
John is a well known person around school. All of his life he has had a love for football. Every year he would join the school football team and help the team through a number of victories. Somewhere along the road, John started to hang out with some bad people. These people brought John into their world of drinking, drugs, and other terrible things. John still plays his extra-curricular activities while getting "high" off such drugs as marijuana and ecstasy. John then is asked to have a drug test in order to stay on the team. He failed it. John was kicked off the team. He was expelled from school. He lost everything he once had. Such incidents like that have been happening all the time. Isn't it a right of ours to have privacy? Wasn't there an amendment to make sure no anonymous searches and seizures take place? When it comes down to such questions, both sides have a different view. Students feel that their privacy is being violated. So far the Supreme Court has not issued that it is unconstitutional or not if a random drug testing for any student occurs. Still, random people
throughout extra-curricular activities are allowed to be drug tested. Several students have spoke out saying that they feel that this is taking away their rights as a citizen. Doing drugs is wrong, but doesn't a person have the right to hide the fact that he/she does them? Earls took her case to two courts before it entered the Supreme Court. A federal judge in Oklahoma took sides with the school, but the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit took sides with Earls. The case then entered the Supreme Court in 2002 as the Board of Education of Independent School District No. 92 of Pottawatomie County v. Earls. The court took sides of Earl on a 5-4 victory. There already was a Supreme Court case, Vernonia School District v. Acton, in 1995 in which the Supreme Court ruled that it was OK to randomly test athletes only if there was reason to suspect such a wrong-doing. When Lindsey Earls was asked to be tested in 1998 in order to join a competitive singing group, she refused and clamed that such of an action violated her privacy. She soon took it anyway, and passed it. She was still n
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