Comments on: Why I’m Standing Up Against Random Drug Testing at My High School

By: SmexxiStar

SmexxiStar — Wed, 26 May 2010 13:29:38 +0000

ii love this website. lmao. ii am doing a report in my senior english class about random drug testings trying to get them to stop. Because it violates our privacy. There might be children, but ppl say its addictive, its not. ive been smoking for 3 years. it is no addition.. i had to quite because i was suppected because i wouldnt take a drug test. but i went against it, and so did all of my friends which is 1/2 of the student body. haha but this website has helped me so much. thank you all so much :)

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:09:19 +0000

Hi Allie,
I agree with you completely and understand what you are growing through. This is my senior year has a high school student and students participating in extra-curricular activities are given a mandatory drug test. We received this drug test, less than two weeks from when the school year started, and I failed this test. Over the summer, I had set a date when to stop smoking marijuana, over 45 days from the beginning of the school year. During the summer, two of my friends had continually smoked weed. One whom had done it approximately a week and a half before the drug test. I told them as much as I could to stop doing this, worried that they would be ineligible to play varsity basketball, all of us were locked in as starters on our varsity basketball team. BOTH OF THESE FRIENDS PASSED. I was in utter shock. After experiencing this situation, it emotionally troubled me. How is this justifiable? How is this even reasonable? It’s not merely fair. I am now barred from National Honor Society, Student Council, and varsity basketball, and maybe among more things later in the school year. Now I could have chosen to continue on the basketball team, but would have been suspended for all games except for 5 or 6, and would not even be allowed to travel with the team. When telling them that there was no reason to play, I was given this quote,” Our school drug-testing program is here so that you won’t quit, you will only work harder to play. We would rather you not quit, this program does not promote this.” Does this even make sense? Why would I waste 3 months working, and only play 4-6 games, if even that? That statement completely contradicts everything I had heard before. IT DOES PROMOTE STUDENTS TO JUST DROPOUT OF SCHOOL ACTIVITIES. I am being treated as if I were a criminal. Do these administrators, and board members not realize that this “method” is completely ineffective? In my opinion, this is a natural stage of every teens life. We should not be exploited in this way. It is detrimental to our future, an invasion of privacy, a mental burden, and completely unnecessary. How can this continue? My senior year of high school, has now been completely thrown into turmoil and caused depression into my daily life. I am severely upset.

By: Radical Russ

Radical Russ — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:55:48 +0000

Thank you, Allie, for standing up to injustice and hypocrisy. Nobody wants teenagers abusing marijuana, but the proper way to get that across is with realistic and factual education. Our own Dr. Mitch Earleywine constantly tells us that too much marijuana is bad for developing teen brains, and that drug testing is counterproductive, especially compared to education.

By: Allie Brody

Allie Brody — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 23:23:19 +0000

Hello,

I can’t tell you how gratifying it is to see somebody responding this way to my situation. My Senior year is rounding out, and I’ve yet to see any change in the way students in my school approach drug use. There have been no informative assemblies or real-life lessons in drug education. I’m dissapointed in my school, and also in a majority of the students’ apathy toward the policy. They miss class time, they feel uncomfortable, but they aren’t willing to stand up. The mindset needs to change, and it’s great to see somebody who agrees!

Thanks