Drug Testing in Schools

I think that the idea to implement drug testing in our school would not only ruin any further support for the school from students but would create an atmosphere where students feel unsafe. Everyday at school, students would feel as if the school is trying to hurt them rather than watch them succeed. I do not think it is the schools responsibility to interfere with personal decisions when its obligation is to educate students on these issues rather than enforce them. I feel if schools started drug-testing people that it would create more problems for the school and ultimately ruin extra curricular activities for students when they are supposed to be encouraged. I agree that the issue the school is trying to prevent is wrong and is something that should be prevented but the way in which the school would be preventing it is wrong. By drug testing students the school is no longer a place where a student can feel they have the opportunity to make their own decisions and feel comfortable. The school would be adding another rule that allows the school to know too much about their students. It is a parental guardian's responsibility to educate and prevent their children from participating in drugs and the police's job to find people who are breaking the law and using these drugs. Overall, I believe that the school should not implement drug testing for students who participate in extra curricular activities. The article I read deals with a student whose phone was searched and nude photos were found. The student argued that "search of the device,” she continues, “is akin to browsing through someone’s address and appointment book, opening and reading letters sent by U.S. mail, and rummaging through a family photo album or viewing home videos." I agree with this argument because I feel that a school should not be allowed to go through personal documents and look for bad things. If students had the opportunity to look through teachers personal information and drug test them I believe that many bad things would be found. I think that this search should not be legal because it completely disregards a student’s privacy.