Yes .. I would also want demand random drugtesting for our elected officials while we are at it.

People take mind altering drugs . People minds are altered. Surprise!!! People are not facing reality. People are not successful while on drugs and you don't clear your mind overnight; it can take weeks. And people do argue how great they are while on drugs or drug residue in the brain for weeks. And if you don't believe it is bad , you must be on drugs. Test everyone everywhere,,,,I'll go first !!!

This is great. I am so happy that some really positive action is going to be taken to protect students who do not take drugs. Why should they have to go to school with people under the influence. Talk about a downer! Kids using should be banned from education. That would truly be a reality check for them and hopefully they would realize that there are consequences to their actions. I truly hope for the sake of sober students that this is agreed upon. Thanks...

i believe in this cause i go to high school myself and i hear all the time of kids using drugs. and it it makes me sad that kids my age are already wasting there lives

No! not without cause, we are losing our civil rights and no one seems to care. what I do in my off time is my own business, not the goverments!

Basic American priciple of indivual rights need to upheld in schools. Students deserve a basic right to privacy and just because technology makes it possible we shouldn't do it. We should spend are time teaching not policing. Thomas Jefferson smoked hashish, Abe Lincoln smoked hemp cigarettes, FDR drank cocaine brandy and all those people drinking coffee just to survive! Teach the kids the truth about drugs not political hype which leads to the erosion of civil liberties.

and slavery used to be legal too. as adults we have an obligation to protect the kids. they do not have the right to vote, when i was in high school we wanted the right to vote because then we could change the laws making it easier to buy beer. who cares who the president is we just wanted beer.
now in the work place if there is an accident drug and alcohol testing is mandatory. there is a huge difference between what bush did to our constitutional rights through the patriot act and this issue of testing in the schools to identify the users and dealers. if you dont like the idea of testing in schools the solution is simple, home schooling!

Kids who don't use drugs have also the legal right for safet, and not have to sit in the same classroom with some guy acting like a lose canon because he just decided to get hit of meth during recess.

As soon as anything comes up people freak out and call its an invasion to my civil liberties. The constitution also says you have the right to bear arms .. does that mean every student can carry a gun in school ? Is that safe as well? I mean .. Abe Lincoln probably owned one .. and Cheney can get away with shooting someone in the face (or peppered as he called it).

Fred .. if FDR jumped of a bridge .. would you do it too ?

Anyone who trades their freedom for safety deserves neither. I believe it was Benjamin Franklin who said that. It has never been more true than today. We now have the Patriot Acts and it seems like every year our freedoms and privacy are infringed upon for safety's sake. I wonder when the masses will wake up and understand what they've traded in the name of 'safety'.

I don't particularly care if they test students for drugs in the schools or not. From what my children told me while they were attending public schools, I think it would be a good idea to test the teachers and administrators for drugs and alcohol while they are at it. Maybe they'd catch a few of those teachers who keep a bottle of booze in their desk drawers.

I firmly believe a school's job is to teach, not train. Drug testing insures some measure of drug avoidance, but a properly run program is certainly beyond the capabilities of most school districts in our state. I have no objection to criteria-based testing; random testing has met no objective outcomes in diminishing drug use among school age children, or so says the American Board of Pediatric Medicine.
Values & a high comfort level seem to be meaningful assets in helping kids resist drugs. I also hope our kids are taught their rights & responsibilities.

Will the tests be truly random? Are they really going to test the valedictorian's urine for drugs? And what if they find some? What if the kid ate a Costco-sized poppy-seed muffin for breakfast? Will they strip that kid of his honors and shame him publically - and maybe dump him in legal trouble - for "drug use" when he's already doing everything a school can reasonably ask? Is this what our schools are *for*?

I doubt it will be truly random. I doubt truly random testing would be efficacious - any more than strip-searching a little old crickety granny at the airport is useful in stopping terrorists. But of course we must not "profile" people, it wouldn't be fair.

Hogwash. Test for cause, if necessary. If that's really the school's role. And make sure there's a system in place to help these kids, including the underlying reason they're escaping into drugs. Otherwise it'll turn into schools referring kids to the police, with all that entails. And some of them might even be innocent.

Are you kidding? When is everyone going to wake up and stop allowing the government to interfere in our lives? How about schools focus on what they're suppose to do and just teach our kids. Oh, but they're not very good at that, either.

Nice intrusion on civil rights. What's next...random polygraphs?

Hey .. you guys all voted for this monkey that is in charge .. now you shouldn't complain about what is happening to your privacy.

Go for it. Maybe no drugs will motivate them to get school over with and move on to their personal lives. I'm tired of hearing about drunk kids in math class. Something needs to be done.

1. Drugs are illegal
2. The government is finally feeling the appropriate push to protect the masses that are 'practically' required to attend their 'public' schools.
3. My child has a civil right to not have his "life" aggravated by your child's drug use...or yours for that matter. It also sounds like a good anti experimentation measure, in that in absence of a responsible adult and lacking adequate social skills the community has set an easy enough call back reproach. "Testing".

What exactly ARE you trying to hide? Civil rights are just being recognized as far as I'm concerned.

I don't care what you do-but for when your sharing space with others.

i personally think that they shouldnt care about our lives out of school. its none of there business!! and teachers who tell the kids parents that they think there kid might be doing drugs or smoking needs to butt out

the thing that people do outside of school is out buisness end of story.

NO ONE SHOULD BE LEFT OUT OF DRUG TEST, IF THEY ARE, IT WILL BE OUR DOWN FALL, DRUGS KILL AND WILL MAKE FOR SHORTER LIVES FOR ALL, MY BOSS OF 14 YEARS HAS NEVER BEEN TESTED AND I HAVE SPOT TEST ABOUT EVERY 6 MONTHS, WE NEED ALL TO BE TESTED, NOT THAT I THINK HE USE'S DRUGS BUT I MIGHT BE SUPRIZED WHO DOES, TEST ALL, JUST TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE HEADED !!!