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 Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive
#8887782 - 09/06/08 05:49 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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Only one Bullitt County high school student tested positive for drugs last school year, though nearly 550 tests were given.
"It's great news," said Jaime Goldsmith, the district's director of safe and drug-free schools. "It dispels some of those rumors that it's running rampant."
Last year was the first for Bullitt's random drug-testing program. Athletes from Bullitt Central and Bullitt East high school were randomly selected to participate.
The urine tests screen for marijuana, amphetamines, steroids, ecstasy, hydrosol, PCP, methadone, barbiturates, benzodiaphine (such as Xanax), opiates, cocaine, propoxyphene (in painkillers such as Darvon) and alcohol.
The one positive test was for alcohol, Goldsmith said.
This year, all middle and high school students in the district will undergo drug tests if they play a sport or participate in a competitive extracurricular group. School board members voted to expand the testing program in March.
Parents whose children don't play sports or participate in competitive activities can also have them tested by entering them into the "volunteer pool," Goldsmith said.
There are penalties for testing positive. Students who fail the tests must sit out 20 percent of the season and pass another drug test before returning, Goldsmith said. After a second failure, the student must miss the whole season and be tested each month for a year.
Student who fail a third time are banned from competitive programs for the rest of their middle or high school careers.
Students who fail any tests also must undergo drug counseling.
The tests are conducted at school, and there is no cost to parents or students unless they fail two tests, Goldsmith said.
The testing program is funded through a study grant from the National Center for Education Evaluation. Bullitt is one of 36 school systems in the country involved in the study that is designed to determine if testing prevents drug use among students.
In exchange for participating, Bullitt schools are receiving $140,000 a year for five years.
Bullitt East's principal, Debby Atherton, said she was not surprised by last year's test results.
"The fact that testing exists is a deterrent," Atherton said. " … It gives students a reason to say no to their peers."
Ryan McClure, 16, agrees that testing is a deterrent and believes everyone should be tested. Ryan, a Bullitt East junior, plays baseball and said he was randomly picked twice to be tested last year.
He said he didn't feel like the testing process was intrusive.
"The test really isn't a big deal," Ryan said. "It felt really secure. You shouldn't be worried about it anyway if you don't do drugs."
Last year, some of the drug testing was done in a district trailer, but this year the tests will be conducted in school bathrooms, Goldsmith said.
"The bathrooms are closed off when the testing is done, and students are given privacy," she said. "We want to be serious about the testing but we're not out to embarrass students."
Kayla Alcorn, 16, said she was happy to hear about the results from last year.
"It just shows that none of us really are doing anything wrong," Kayla said. A Bullitt East junior, Kayla swims for the school and said she was pulled once last year for drug testing.
"It was in an RV at our school and there were other athletes there too," she said. "It really wasn't a big deal."
Kayla has a younger sister in one of the district middle schools, and she might be tested this year because she wants to run track, Kayla said.
"I do think that it's kind of funny that the middle schoolers will be tested -- they're so little," she said. "I guess it is out there for them too though, so it's good that they're tested. It just helps to make sure we're doing the right things."
Jana Pruitt, who has a son, Logan, at Bullitt East this year and a daughter, Olivia, at Eastside Middle School, said she had no problems with the drug testing. Both of her children play sports.
"What does a drug test hurt?" Pruitt said. "Unless you're afraid of the results, I don't understand why it would be a problem."
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8887789 - 09/06/08 05:51 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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boring highschool
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8887888 - 09/06/08 06:15 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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Out of 550 students the only fail was for alcohol?
Either that test is piss poor or those kids excel at cheating drug tests.
Or maybe they just don't use during season?
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: DragonChaser]
#8887943 - 09/06/08 06:29 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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or maybe most kids don't drink during the weekdays? I imagine they piss test during the week and the partying goes on during the weekends.
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: TODAY]
#8887963 - 09/06/08 06:33 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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He said he didn't feel like the testing process was intrusive.
"The test really isn't a big deal," Ryan said. "It felt really secure. You shouldn't be worried about it anyway if you don't do drugs."/quote]
And you shouldn't worry if the government is tapping your phone lines either, because you're not talking about terrorists, right?
Get used to it kids, this is the future.
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: Irieforester]
#8888043 - 09/06/08 07:00 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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so how much money did it cost to test 550 kids
$1000?
more?
wut a fucking waste!
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: Coaster]
#8888090 - 09/06/08 07:10 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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> so how much money did it cost to test 550 kids
550 x $65 = $35,750 assuming they used a standard 5-panel emit test. They could have hired another full time teacher for nearly that.
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: Seuss]
#8888101 - 09/06/08 07:13 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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wholesale yo
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: b0red5tiff]
#8888160 - 09/06/08 07:32 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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Kayla Alcorn, 16, said she was happy to hear about the results from last year.
"It just shows that none of us really are doing anything wrong," Kayla said.
Great way to brainwash kids into believing that 'all drugs are wrong' and that anybody doing them is socially unacceptable. 
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: TODAY]
#8888507 - 09/06/08 09:18 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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I wasn't referring to alcohol. I'm surprised no one failed for pot or other drugs.
Maybe its because they're athletes and they knew they would be tested in season?
There's no way you can go to any high school in the US and pick 550 random kids and only have a single fail, and that one for alcohol.
I smell BS. Even if those kids are all athletes, I'm sure some of them use drugs.
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: DragonChaser]
#8888530 - 09/06/08 09:26 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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just not frequent enuf 2 fail the test
they prolly do it on occasion
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: Coaster]
#8888852 - 09/06/08 10:50 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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if they tested my school I guarantee >90% would come back positive
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: NobodyImportant]
#8889075 - 09/06/08 11:55 PM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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well you know, if they are required to give you warning or anything maybe they just didnt take them because they knew they were either about to be tested or were told they could at any time be randomly tested then most highschool kids are smart enough to know that they should either not take a drug, or that they use it sparingly enough that they can flush their system to clear it, with alcohol a big use at that school since it i would be easiest to cover up that is readily accessable to them.
but either way, drinking is a large problem for highschool students so good for them for taking some initiative to curb that useage, even though i do feel that some drinking is an issue, but if it is often enough that you are worried about being tested then there may be a problem. And other substances than weed should be tested for because their use is dangerous overall due to the ability for it to quickly spread to a large number of people, and while i believe prohibition is not the key, there are certain drugs which need to not be consumed by highschool kids. Even if you had to be 18 to legally smoke weed, they shouldnt test for it if they dont test for nicotine for cigarettes too.
adderall is something isnt it.
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: magicgreenbeans]
#8889769 - 09/07/08 05:36 AM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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adderall is something isnt it.
It's a shame adderall doesn't necessarily increase punctuation and grammer~!!! Oi Vey!!
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: magicgreenbeans]
#8889790 - 09/07/08 06:16 AM (2 months, 27 days ago) |
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If the government believes they can undercut drug usage in high schools by using drug tests, thus taking control of who is NOT able to use in the school systems, then it's just a matter of time before they make drug testing mandatory at the workplace. So long liberty! Hello Jail. 
People shouldn't have to lose their chance to compete in sports, or their jobs, or go to jail if they are found with THC in their system, or opiates for that matter, or anything. People should lose their jobs by poor performance, which can happen when drug use goes on uncontrolled.
My brother enjoys meth, yes METH, on occasion. He has a wife, family, sells insurance and makes $80,000 a year. He functions in society. He is a product of small town rural America. It's time for people to understand that drug USE is normal among many of our family and peers and that real drug ADDICTION requires 'FREE' government rehabilitation instead of 'FREE' jail time.
Teaching kids drug use is a criminal activity is misleading and stigmatizing.
And the ensuing prison term for being caught using is certainly not the answer to 'curing America', although private jails certainly won't tell you that. $$$ We need to educate teens about dangers of each specific drug.
All drugs should be available through medical prescription. Drug production would be better/safer, a national source of revenue, and it would undercut the money-grubbing, throat-cutting international drug peddlers and smugglers.
Make it a health issue, not a criminal activity.
Drug 'offenders' should be called drug 'victims', or something that will de-stigmatize them. Especially adolescents! If the 'victim' has AN OBVIOUS DRUG ADDICTION, (I'm not talking about average Joe Toke), then the government should pay for respectful professional medical help (I guess that only works in Holland). Crack addicts, meth addicts, Valium addicts all need positive respectful supervision from professionals, not to mention safer access to the drugs they NEED until they can get a grip on their situation, if at all possible...
And even if that aforementioned high school drug test is actually that effective in the high schools, which I doubt, most of those kids are still left in the dark to sit and wonder what the truth is...it's just a matter of time...and curiosity killed the cat...
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Re: Of 550 High School Athletes Drug-Tested In Bullitt, One Was Positive [Re: up_right]
#8891896 - 09/07/08 04:57 PM (2 months, 26 days ago) |
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I believe this was a middle school they were testing. I'd say 1 out of 500 kids in my middle school were smoking pot. High school is where it really starts to happen.
Either way, drug testing in public schools is the dumbest fucking thing going. Private school? Whatever. Do your thing.
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