School to randomly test student drivers for drugs

we must teach the kids they have the freedom to have no rights and live in a dictatorship...and to be safe from the drugs the feds ship in, then put people in jail to work 20 cents an hour for using...

and no, the school cops don't already have the right to search student vehicles...unless, of course, we don't live in a free country...


School to randomly test student drivers for drugs
Associated Press | July 20, 2006

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While this particular story might take place in Texas, these sorts of policies are being put in place in schools all over the coutry.

ABILENE, Texas - Students who drive themselves to school this year will be subject to random drug tests, De Leon High School officials said.

The school board decided to expand former drug testing regulations to include students who park on school property and those who participate in all extracurricular activities. Athletes, beginning in seventh grade, were already being tested, the Abilene Reporter-News reported.

"Our goal is to include as many students as possible into our drug-testing program," said Randy Mohundro, superintendent of De Leon schools.

Students must agree to the program when they register this fall and obtain their parking permit, officials said. Marijuana, cocaine, barbiturates and methamphetamine can be detected by the test.

Students testing positive would not be turned over to police but instead would be required to undergo counseling. They would temporarily be banned from school activities and driving to the campus.

Mohundro said officials already had the right to search student vehicles and were simply expanding that policy.

"Bringing a car to school is a privilege, not a right," he said.

Merkel superintendent Bill Hood said his district had not instituted such tests but was interested in the idea to promote safety.

"If you're going to let them drive a car around the campus, you would want them to be drug free," he said.

But other schools have shied away from random drug testing to ensure that students' rights are not violated. The Supreme Court has upheld such testing only for extracurricular activities.

De Leon is about 80 miles southeast of Abilene.

I would pull my kid out of that school.............

Thats truely unbelievable I just can't believe the hipocracy of it all.Truely whats next drug testing children going to infant school!What a joke.:mad:

It's post Columbine all over again.

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Originally Posted by XTC

It's post Columbine all over again.

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XTC, Colubine is down the strret from my house..... If harris and kliebold were smoking tons of weed they never would have done that.

How does columbine have anything to do with this?

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Originally Posted by Bong30

XTC, Colubine is down the strret from my house..... If harris and kliebold were smoking tons of weed they never would have done that.

How does columbine have anything to do with this?

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Not trusting our kids. Recall after columbine they were searching every damn student as if they would suddenly go psycho. Even talk of drugs testing, etc.

XTC kids did go Psycho.... again and again and again.. i will post them if you want me to.

They searched for drugs back in my day........ I got kicked out of school for it XTC. I know.

THey searched me cause I was up to NO GOOD. They knew it, i thought they sucked then, but now they just didnt want me selling weed and smoking weed at school.... seams easy.

If my kids were at a school where they did a full search on my kids for no reason... i will be down in the office so fast it will make there heads spin.

THjey need this thing called PC...... Probable Cause... Here is Wikipidia

In United States criminal law, probable cause refers to the standard by which a police officer may make an arrest, conduct a personal or property search or obtain a warrant. It is also used to refer to the standard to which a grand jury believes that a crime has been committed. This term comes from the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. â?? 4th Amendment


They better have it or they will have a law suit............

I don't know what guidelines most schools use to justify personal searches on kids, and I've rarely heard of those (like body searches and pat-downs) happening here in my area of Texas. But for some reason, I was thinking that courts have upheld overall school searches even without probable cause, but perhaps I'm wrong. . . . I'll have to ask my friend who's a principal.

I know at my friend's school, the on-campus officers periodically bring the drug dogs around to sniff lockers and stuff, but all the kids know that the dogs come periodically and know better than to keep any illegal stuff there on school grounds. I know most school administrators and teachers in this area worry a whole lot more about weapons than they do about drugs.

THey can search the lockers, but they better have PC. For me they had probable cause...........

Let us know BG

Thats easy enuff just park down the street wtf are they going to do put you in school jail. Parents around here would just ignore the school.