XPost: alt.education, alt.true-crime, pdx.general   
   XPost: or.politics   
   From: lobby.dosser.mapson@verizon.net   
      
   "NapalmHeart"  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > "Lobby Dosser"  wrote in message   
   > news:Bkhni.5048$4J4.3386@trndny05...   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > There are schools that test any student that participates in   
   > extracurricular activities of any kind.   
      
   Are we discussing one?   
      
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