Should Schools Randomly Test Kids for Drugs?
June 16, 2008
Detroit News
Use cost restraint on tests
If they are going to do random drug testing of students, which I have no problem with when it involves athletes or students showing erratic behavior, they should do so at no additional cost to the taxpayer ("Detroit's Finney High will start random drug testing," June 4). If this comes, something else goes. In addition, make sure the person suspecting the erratic behavior is properly trained and licensed to detect such behavior. Some kids in school are just space cadets.
Gregg Moe
Troy
Blame government, not kids
Why would we test our children? It is the government's fault that drugs are here. The Mexican border is open for the $2 billion dollars a year of dope to enter.
Why blame the students or the adults for that matter? When there is money involved, there are NO rules.
Bea Scalise
New Smyrna Beach, Fla.
Easy to advocate?
I wonder how many supporters of random drug testing would be in the position they are today if similar tests tagged them with a drug conviction when they were teens.
James Brady
Livonia
Testing makes no sense
We're going to institute random drug tests on students, which will cost a pretty penny in itself, not to mention the school district will possibly be defending itself in court over the inevitable legal challenges?
The state is also mandating a curriculum that is going to force local districts to compete nationally to find and hire math and science teachers from an already depleted pool.
Don Schmittdiel
Clinton Township
No random drug tests
I do not believe random drug testing is a good idea.
Education is a business, and the public school system should be sold, and all schools should be private and operated as such.
Paul Gruchala
Westland | 
