Drug Testing in Schools

It’s funny, I was just thinking that I didn’t have anything to post on because nothing really struck meas important or interesting enough. And then along came this.

An all-boys Chicago High School operated by the Christian Bothers will begin testing all students for drug use next Fall. The school says that the program will “take a little peer pressure off of [students]” and give them “a good reason to say no to drugs.” And according to a report, the program is widely supported by the parents at the school.

It’s not clear from the report whether the school is private, but I am going to assume that it is because the religious order that runs it also runs schools in Louisiana and Tennessee with similar policies.

Principal Joseph Schmidt says that he wants the policy to become a catalyst for the spread of this policy throughout the state of Illinois, and I can only assume also all over the United States.