School to test for students weekend drinking!

[robobond]

Well this is bs.

PEQUANNOCK, New Jersey (AP) -- Some teenagers who drink over the weekend could be in big trouble come Monday morning: A New Jersey school district plans to institute random urine tests capable of detecting whether alcohol was consumed up to 80 hours earlier.

Pequannock Township High, with about 800 students, said it will begin administering the tests next Monday.

"This is a major issue for America," School Superintendent Larrie Reynolds said Tuesday. "There are more kids that die each year in alcohol-related traffic deaths than there are soldiers who have died in Iraq. The numbers are staggering."

At least one other New Jersey high school, in Middletown, employs the EtG test, which screens for ethyl glucuronide, a substance produced by the body when it metabolizes alcohol.

Pequannock teenagers who participate in sports or other extracurricular activities, or drive to school, are already tested for illegal drugs, under a 2005 program prompted by the heroin overdose of a student.

Students who test positive for alcohol will not be kicked off teams or barred from extracurricular activities. Instead they will receive counseling and their parents will be notified, Reynolds said.

"That's going to give our kids riding in the back seat of someone's car a very powerful reason to say no," he said.

Drug tests, similarly, can detect drug use that occurred days earlier.

The new test worries civil-liberties advocates and others who oppose school drug testing as an invasion of privacy.

"Medical care and treatment are issues between parents and children," said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.

They also say that common household products such as mouthwash can produce a positive test result. Reynolds said that the test has been recalibrated so that for students to test positive, they would generally have to consume one or two drinks.

The EtG test costs about $20, Reynolds said. The school's overall testing program is funded by a three-year, $120,000 federal grant.

"No one's really taking it seriously. If you want to go to a party, you're still going to go to a party," senior Matt Huber said.

 

[darrinjefferson]

this is right up there with france making it illegal to smoke in public places...

well what if a parent allows their child to drink under their supervision???
will they get kicked off teams still??

this is nuts


late

 

[cain23456]

still kids, test them. test them for drinking and smoking. if you are grown enough to smoke and drink, then get your grown ass out of your parents house and get a job.

 

[Nikijad4210]

Way to paint ALL teens with the same brush.

That's just wrong, and I don't support it what-so-ever. Testing known drinkers is one thing, but to lump everyone together? That's just not right, it sends entirely the wrong message---Even if you've never touched a drop of alcohol in your teenage life, you're still not worth believing or trusting, so you're automatically guilty regardless

 

[Pops]

I am waiting for the rightous folks to pass laws that state the school nurse has to sniff the boy's peckers to see if they have been having illicit sex. Then they will have the right to chop the pecker off.

Won't stop sex, but it will make for cleaner peckers!

 

[Guest]

I am waiting for the rightous folks to pass laws that state the school nurse has to sniff the boy's peckers to see if they have been having illicit sex. Then they will have the right to chop the pecker off.

Won't stop sex, but it will make for cleaner peckers!

Laffed so hard, I hurt my side...

Thanks

ws

 

[fr33th3w33d]

i grew up right next to that town and let me tell you, that general area has alot more problems to worry about. those fascists should be more worried about the 90 pound cokehead sophomore and juinior girls they got walkin around.. the year after i graduated my highschool they institued an "optional" drug testing policy, if you sign yourself up you get rewards of some kind or something. its all stupid and pointless. fuck you passaic county sherriff jerry speziale. im glad my history teacher fucked your daughter in the football equipment shed.. several times.

 

[BACKCOUNTRY]

Just another reason to pull your kids out of public school....

 

[genkisan]

fuck you passaic county sherriff jerry speziale. im glad my history teacher fucked your daughter in the football equipment shed.. several times.

Fookin classic.



All this self-righteous shit in the US comes in part from the fact that the country was founded by a bunch of foaming at the mouth religious fanatics who were so off in left field they were kicked out of England (Puritans).

These are the same friendly folk who were very very into denouncing their 'sinning' neighbours and burning witches.

Nice buncha folks, eh?


I personally think there is somethin vey wrong with a country where you can join the Army at 18, learn how to kill people and be given a 10 million dollar tank to drive.......but you can't have a beer after a hard days combat because yer underage for drinking.

18 is underage for drinking but not for killing and combat.........what a fucking sick country.

 

[Guest]

i was reading they want to just random drug test all high school kids now...so ridiculous...