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Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests
#14593583 - 06/10/11 11:35 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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http://www.kansas.com/2011/06/10/1886026/derby-schools-to-have-drug-tests.html#ixzz1OwVlWP5h
Starting this fall, Derby students who want to play a sport, march with the band, write for the yearbook, run for class president or park in the school lot will have to agree to random drug tests.
If they test positive for alcohol or drugs such as cocaine, amphetamines, opiates or marijuana, they will face at least a one-month suspension from school activities.
Derby officials say the new policy, approved by the school board last month, will give students another reason to say no to drugs and alcohol.
"Our youth have a number of challenges before them, and our board was looking at ways we could help support them to make good decisions," said Craig Wilford, Derby's superintendent.
"If a student is faced with a drug or alcohol situation, they can say, 'I've got this chance to be tested, and I want to be able to go to the next debate meet or participate in the next school activity,' " he said.
"It's really a preventative model."
Officials were scheduled to hold an informational meeting at Derby High School on Thursday to answer questions about the new policy. Another session designed for middle school students and their families is scheduled for 6 p.m. Tuesday at the high school.
School districts in Maize, Wellington and El Dorado have similar policies.
Under the new Derby policy, any student in seventh grade or higher must agree to a possible test if they want to participate in school-sponsored activities. That includes athletics, clubs, band, orchestra, pep assemblies or getting a student parking permit.
"Any kind of activity or privilege," said Tim Hamblin, who will take over as principal of Derby High in July.
Unlike the Maize policy, Derby's stops short at requiring students to agree to drug testing to attend school dances or graduation ceremonies.
"We decided not to include that at this point," Hamblin said.
The district has contracted with HR Solutions, an El Dorado company, to test 12 high school students and six middle school students a month, at a cost of $31.40 per test.
Melody Hogoboom, operations manager for HR Solutions, said the rate is less than the company normally charges for drug screenings. Special lab contracts allow the company to offer discounted drug testing for schools, she said.
The program is being funded by a $70,000 agreement from the city of Derby intended for drug and alcohol prevention programs.
At the start of the school year, parents and students will be asked to sign a form agreeing to the confidential tests. Students participating in fall sports are required to submit the forms before practices start Aug. 15. All others have until Aug. 26.
Hogoboom said her company will conduct the random urine tests and breath screenings at the schools. Negative results usually are shared with school administrators within 24 hours, she said. "Non-negative" results are sent to a lab and a medical review officer for confirmation.
According to the policy, students who test positive for drugs or alcohol won't be allowed to participate in extracurricular activities for at least a month and will be subject to additional testing. They must also go through an assessment program paid for by their parents to determine the extent of drug or alcohol use.
The second time students test positive they will be suspended from extracurricular activities for up to two months. They will be required to go through a drug treatment program, also paid for by their parents, before being allowed back into extracurricular activities.
Results would not be available to the police department without a subpoena and would have no effect on academic records. Parents would have the right to appeal a positive test if the substance was medically authorized.
Hamblin, the principal, said the policy — in the works for nearly two years — wasn't prompted by a particular incident or an outbreak of drug or alcohol abuse in Derby.
"I would not say that was the motivating factor," he said. "The genesis behind this was to give students one more tool to be able to say no to using illicit drugs."
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: 5-HT2A]
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HardTrippin
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: Greendreams]
#14596068 - 06/11/11 01:26 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Meh, kids who are doing coke and opiates probably have little interest in school activities. This prevents nothing
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: HardTrippin]
#14596098 - 06/11/11 01:33 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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me and my best friends used to do alot of coke in the school bathroom!
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: HardTrippin]
#14596109 - 06/11/11 01:34 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I find this as ironic as suspending students for bad behavior. Instead of being kicked out of a program, maybe they should make you enroll in a program such as a three hour saturday course on Women Poets in medieval times. NOW THAT WOULD BE PUNISHMENT.
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: ShroomyJohn]
#14596158 - 06/11/11 01:44 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: MGMT]
#14604145 - 06/13/11 01:45 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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WTF, parking your car in the school lot is a privilege which now requires submitting to random drug testing? Where the hell else are you supposed to park? Considering my car got broken into while in the school lot perhaps I would have been better off parking somewhere else.
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: Ojom]
#14604931 - 06/13/11 08:02 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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We actually got our cars towed for parking on a public street during the day and walking to school. They also pulled some bullshit about us not being allowed to walk onto school property afterwards. Supposedly it isn't safe or something. The worst part? It's no big secret that the drug testing here isn't random at all. They basically pick the drug suspects and bust them at will. They also search your car without telling you while you're in class without any reason at all. You wanna tell me the drug tests were random and every single time you caught someone for three years straight? REALLY?
Not just Derby, either. This is a trend that all public schools in the midwest have going on. There is a lot of angst in the youth out here because of it.
My junior year a hunter-outdoorsman type dude got expelled because he had half a .22 rifle in his truck cab. Not even a whole gun, no ammo. Just a barrel/stock. Missing the rest of the important parts because it was busted. He had forgotten it was even behind the seats apparently. If you lock your car, they'll force you to open it, and if you don't they expel you.
Edited by blujay (06/13/11 08:07 AM)
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: blujay]
#14604939 - 06/13/11 08:05 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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ZOMG! You're in high school?!?
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: Doc_T]
#14604943 - 06/13/11 08:07 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Fuck no! I was though. Thank SWEET FAGGOT JESUS that ended. So fucked up. Approximately animal rights at best, sometimes worse if you consider the quality of food offered. Thing is I was always actually blissfully unaware of the injustice of it while I was there, I was stone cold sober.
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: blujay]
#14604978 - 06/13/11 08:20 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I guess I can see the point of testing sports participants, but band seems excessive.
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: blujay]
#14604982 - 06/13/11 08:24 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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All kids are going to do is find drugs that either don't show up on the tests or get out of their system quickly. And, who knows, maybe the smart ones will start an underground market for clean piss, too.
The schools, as a result, will probably have to develop tests that catch these previously undetected drugs and, just to be sure, implement a hair follicle test aswell.
Then the kids will start bleaching their hair, shaving their bodies and doing newer, possibly more dangerous, RC drugs that don't show up on the tests.
Now, repeat ad-infinitum until people realize that no amount of drug tests, arrests and harsh punishments will stop people from using (illicit) drugs.
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Re: Kansas - Derby schools to have drug tests [Re: 5-HT2A]
#14604986 - 06/13/11 08:26 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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good the sports players in high school are worst off for drug addiction
they usually have 2-5 friends from the team and no outside "losers" who have gone through seeing someone battle an addiction.
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