XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   Sparrow 13  wrote:   
      
   > Lobby Dosser  wrote:   
   >   
   >>"nimue" wrote:   
   >   
   >>>  these kids have the right to privacy.  It is wrong to force them to   
   >>>  submit to drug   
   >>> testing.   
   >   
   >>They are Not forced. They volunteer.   
   >   
   > Bullshit. They might not be forced under the letter of the law, but   
   > they certainly are in under its spirit.   
   >   
   >  If a drug test is required before the kid gets to participate in   
   > extracirricular activities, and the kid wants to be in the marchinng   
   > band or chess squad or comic collecting club or whatever other kinds   
   > of fun extracirc stuff high school kids like to do these days, s/he is   
   > being *coerced* to comply with the test and its accompanying   
   > sanctions,  if not *forced* per se. The legal definition might claim a   
   > distinction is there, but to my mind the difference  between coercion   
   > and force is one of degree, not kind.   
      
   What part of ATHLETICS don't you understand. Steroids don't do shit for   
   your chess game.   
      
   >   
   >  And it sucks that the school presumes to dictate what the students do   
   > on their own, off-campus time.  Like if a kid never uses or carries   
   > any drugs on school property or at school events, but smokes a joint   
   > or three on weekends or might take the odd bong hit at a party, how   
   > the fuck is that the school's business and what gives them any right   
   > to test the kid and then enforce their own anti-drug sanctions   
      
   The SUPREME COURT.   
      
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