Random Student Drug Tests: I'll homeschool if I have to

[Pipe Dreams]

I don't see how a homeschooled person would be "fucked" or "weird" as compared to someone who goes to public schools. :wtf: I find homeschooled kids not be as judgemental, like judging people and saying they're fucked for the real world. How do you know that? No public school means them not getting picked on (higher self esteem), not being controlled by "teachers" (not as angry or frustrated), they're not put under pressure to study for exams (calm and collected), they won't get urine tested to play sports, need I go on?

Schooling is schooling in my eyes. Parents teaching their own children won't be giving them urine samples when they want to play soccer with some friends, or won't take their cell phone away and go through your private info.

Public school are fucked, and if I can afford to take the time to teach my own kids, I will (when I have kids) but that's hard to do in this day and age.

Okay, well not ALL homeschooled kids are being set up to fail in life, but the kid that lives by me has been coddled by his mommy and daddy his whole life. Hes gonna find out soon that the world is a very harsh and dangerous place.

THATS what I meant by theyre going to be screwed for real life, if you get what Im knockin' at.

[napolitana869]

I dont remember ever being finger printed at school. If something happened to me I'm sure I've left tons of fingerprints all over my home that they can have if needed. As for the drug testing, pure invasion of privacy. Just say no! If I ever felt like my child might be hiding drug use from me I can take care of things on my own. There are some nonacademic things that I do feel like schools should be teaching (even if they arent doing a good job of it at the moment). Sex Edu is the main thing. Parents should still teaching it at home though.

[Nissan_420sx]

I'm a senior in highschool and at the start of the year there was talk about random drug testing, which really pissed me off...The school I went to didn't have very good teachers..I mean I guess they knew what they were talking about and attempting to teach but they just didn't care if we were really learning..I had a few teachers tell me just to drop out, I'm not gonna finish school, Get a job now..shit like that...which really upset me..I mean I got D's to A's..only failed 3 classes in my life and they were telling me to give up... On a side note what really made me leave the school was my car is lowered some and they decide to put in speed curbs..like they were supposed to be spped bumps..but they were so damn high i couldn't drive over them without scraping my frame across them...I talked to the principal that put them in and told him my situation... He told me I need to raise my car or take the bus to school and that it's not his fault my car is too low..(there is no other way into the parking lot without having to get over the speed curbs o' death) I snapped at that point and told him that if My frame gets damaged at all I'm going to make the school pay for it...they didn't take the speed bumps out after parents and students complained to the point that the school called everyone and set up a answering machine for complaints about them...I switched highschools...

sorry for the rant..lol

[GreenLadyOfDankDowns]

I started kindergarten during the early 1980's and I can recall being fingerprinted at the beginning of term, every single fall, until I reached the sixth grade. I have no idea why my school did that. My parents didn't seem to be bothered by it.

[Storm Crow]

When my younger son had problems in school (he's dysgraphic- like dyslexia in handwriting) and my older son was being made to run laps in spite of a doctor's note (resulting in inflamed knees due to a mild congenital deformation), I pulled my kids out of public schools. I home schooled them for 3 years. The elder decided, rather than go back to 12th grade in public school, to get his GED. He took it "cold", no studying and passed with flying colors. My younger boy, went back into 8th grade where they tested him for academic proficiency. In science, he scored grade 16 (that's 4 year college), math was a bit below average, but the rest were at grade level or better.

We had a blast home schooling! We would pick a subject- earthquakes, Southwestern Native Americans, the planets, etc, and study it for a week. We also watched CNN for an hour and then discussed what we saw. The only reason we stopped is that my younger needed the socialization and the older had hit 12th grade.

My kids are quite different- my oldest is "computer wizard" at a local school. Well liked by everyone and always smiling, my oldest is quite successful. The younger is like his Dad, unemployed and semi-antisocial. (However, he's a first-rate cook and does a gourmet dinner 3 nights a week for his poor old Mom.)

I also work at the school and spend much of my time fixing the teacher's mistakes. About 1/3 of the 5th graders at my school have trouble doing multiplication- which is bad, since they are doing algebra now. Spelling is a disaster for many of them. To put is bluntly, I'm not too happy with the job the local schools are doing. I had to listen to the DARE crap today, which does not put me in a good mood. Even in the second grade, I can spot kids who are thinking "This is BS!" as they listen to the cop. By the time they hit 7th grade, they can hardly keep from laughing at all the BS!

Pull your kids out if you feel you can do a better job than the schools! It isn't that hard! Hit the public library and have fun! -Granny:hippy:

[ripher]

We have to agree to random drug testing at our school if you want to drive to school or participate in any activity basically.

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

That's bullshit. Leave the morality teaching to the parent.

[jpbc99]

You must remember the year 1988. Ronald regan passed a law. Basically if you deal with the federal government, you will take a drug test.

Your kids fall under that until you start homeschooling. Honestly, I dont wanna pay tax money for some 14 year old kid to go and start taking drugs and drop out before graduating highschool.

The prints are for your kid incase of an abduction. Moron. I tpo vividly remember being printed in kindergarden by the police. I also remember being reprinted everytime I got arrested. Those prints are entered into a criminal data base.

The kindergarden ones are still on file at the ^^^^^ police station. Never touched thankfully, as I was never stolen.

What are you gonna do, have a joint with your kids when your homeschooling them?

No way will I let a school randomly drug test my kids. If my kids are doing anything, I will be the one to handle it, not some nubby fucknut with power issues. I also don't let them fingerprint my kids. About twice a year, they send these little Ident A Kits home, for us to give them permission to fingerprint the kids, supposedly for their own safety. BULLSHIT. It's just a way of tagging your kids and getting them in the system, so when they get popped for smoking a little bud later in life, they've already got their prints on file. Enough of that rant. Read this.
D'Alliance

[Mrs. Greenjeans]

Hmmm. You have a problem with me? Interesting.

In cases of abduction, the prints are used to identify a body. They do nothing to help find a missing child.