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 Carlito
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 WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing
#6322562 - 11/30/06 07:38 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2006/11/28/news/news2.txt
WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing
The Willcox School district is in the final stages of instituting drug testing of its students after the school board approved Southwest Laboratories of Phoenix as its potential contractor on Nov. 7.
Sonja Hoppe, a vice president of the Lab, assured school board members that they have extremely effective safeguards against fraudulent urine samples. Southwest also promised quick turnaround of test results to confirm positive or negative results for the presence of illegal drugs.
Urine samples will be temperature checked, Hoppe said, and must fit a tight range to qualify as a legitimate sample. The lab also has high tech equipment to check for masking agents that can attempt to alter the results. The district plans to test no more than 100 students this school year, said superintendent Dr. Donald Roberts, at a cost of $16.25 per test or a total of $1,625 to the district. Southwest Labs will also perform the drug testing for the adult population of the district's transportation department at a similar cost.
The labs costs are just one portion of the expense for the program. The district will pay for mailing samples to the lab and for the cost of training and hiring an on-campus collector to administer the testing.
The district will utilize the Drug Panel 130 test, which screens for meth, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, barbiturates, codeine, morphine, ecstasy, soma, alcohol (recent use and minimum .05 percent level) and other current popular drugs of choice in the current culture, Roberts said.
The tests will not screen for steroids, which have rated as a low concern on local surveys of drug abuse, Roberts said.
"We will change the panel of drugs to be screened if surveys about the drugs of choice in our local youth culture should change," Roberts said.
Although the drug-screening of a student will be as confidential as possible in a private on-campus site, the subject will sit and watch their specimen sealed in a pouch with their identification numbers applied to the two specimen bottles.
The specimens should reach the lab the next morning, said Hoppe, where same-day testing will be applied in a two-step process. The lab will add an anti-body chemical to check for drug presence. If positive, a second step of the lab process would be to use a technique that verifies what kind of chemical is present and whether it's an over-the-counter or illegal drug.
"A medical review officer gets the positive result, likely the next day, but it isn't reported yet to the district," said Hoppe. "The officer will contact parents to check for a valid medical reason for that positive test, and if there's no clear explanation, then it will be reported to the district."
School board vice-president Mike Moss proposed the motion that the district be allowed to negotiate with Southwest Labs as the drug-testing contractor, which was approved unanimously by the rest of the board.
Roberts said he would come prepared to the Dec. 5 board meeting with a detailed plan on how to implement the tests and the kind of action the district would take to respond to positive test results.
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 lipan
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Re: WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing [Re: Carlito]
#6323356 - 12/01/06 03:50 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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lol not going to screen for steroids because the football team is a valuable asset to the school.
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Nephlyte
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Re: WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing [Re: Carlito]
#6324492 - 12/01/06 02:07 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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Carlito said:
http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2006/11/28/news/news2.txt
WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing
The district plans to test no more than 100 students this school year, said superintendent Dr. Donald Roberts, . . .
Ya, a 100 students this year. Next year it'll be 200, then half of the students, then you'll have to pee to get into class.
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. . . at a cost of $16.25 per test or a total of $1,625 to the district. . . . The labs costs are just one portion of the expense for the program. The district will pay for mailing samples to the lab and for the cost of training and hiring an on-campus collector to administer the testing.
BTW, who needs new computers or books anyway. Its not like school have anything to do with learning. Also, teacher raises are out the window for this year.
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The district will utilize the Drug Panel 130 test, which screens for meth, marijuana, cocaine, amphetamines, barbiturates, codeine, morphine, ecstasy, soma, alcohol (recent use and minimum .05 percent level) and other current popular drugs of choice in the current culture, Roberts said.
The tests will not screen for steroids, which have rated as a low concern on local surveys of drug abuse, Roberts said.
Because who would want to kick football players out of school? Those are the people who bring up grades, don't you know. As long as we go ahead and pass them so they can stay on the football team.
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Although the drug-screening of a student will be as confidential as possible in a private on-campus site, the subject will sit and watch their specimen sealed in a pouch with their identification numbers applied to the two specimen bottles.
Confidential until the test positive and are kicked out of school. That'll help them learn.
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Roberts said he would come prepared to the Dec. 5 board meeting with a detailed plan on how to implement the tests and the kind of action the district would take to respond to positive test results.
Actions like subjecting students to illegal searchs, sueing or otherwise charging parents, proceeding to illegal searches of student homes, removal of student from school, and placement of otherwise successful students in a low-grade alternative education programs. Also, restrictive drug treatment will be mandatory.
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 CptnGarden
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Re: WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing [Re: Nephlyte]
#6324504 - 12/01/06 02:11 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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that money should go to school supplies!!!!!!!!!
every school i went to was undersupplied, underpaid and shitty as fuck cause we didnt have much to work with.
wasting money on this crap thats probably gonna end soon anyways is just ludacris, what a fucked up situation.
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Re: WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing [Re: CptnGarden]
#6325114 - 12/01/06 05:38 PM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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By the time I'm at the age to start a family, I have a feeling I won't want to raise my children here
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Re: WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing [Re: CUBErt]
#6326377 - 12/02/06 03:00 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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the world is kinda just one big test now. I realized the other day that we as humans have let science run wild because to actually research/think before acting costs 2 much money.
so with over population, and an extict ecosystem....we have to find ways to make more cash for our gov. We have to slowly stripe the middle class lower and lower into the bare essenials to live.
Because without these sacrifices, we wouldn't have rich people. Welcome to the New World Order...a place to live free, in democracy....lets break that word down shall we? Demo Cracy.
A place where we have more schooling than ever before, we work more hours than ever before.....yet we get paid less than every before....and we have less freetime, less lives, higher depression, higher suicides....and they blame us for the suicides and depression...its our fault guys! for working 2 hard and having no lives...give us a pill to fix us because their is something wrong with us and our body. Quick everyone watch some more cnn and maybe you'll forget all this!
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Re: WUSD approves lab for student drug-testing [Re: makaveli8x8]
#6326459 - 12/02/06 04:30 AM (1 year, 10 months ago) |
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You can thank George W. Bush for this, because student drug testing is a part of the "No Child Left Behind" Act. Of course, never mind the fact that good old Georgie used to smoke weed himself. And did I mention that he has a DUI on his record? Don't ever count on a Bible thumper to stay out of people's private lives, especially when the Bible thumper in question happens to be the president. That's part of the reason why I don't vote Republican anymore, because I would be voting in people who like to ram their theology and their morals down everyone's throat.
Of course, the drug testing industry just loves the fact that more schools are drug testing their students, because that only means more money for them. For them, it's not about making America drug free, of course, it's about making more money. Building more prisons, seizing more assets, drug testing more people--the more the War on Drugs expands, the more money people will make, and that's why it will probably never end.
This country makes me so disgusted sometimes. I ought to move to the Netherlands.
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"Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power."
--P.J. O'Rourke
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