New Jersey Town Could Drug Test Middle Schoolers

Well, if the TV show Jersey Shore is what the people in Jersey are like they should also hand out chastity belts!

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Amendment 4 - Search and Seizure. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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Years ago, the company I worked for started testing new hire for drugs. I kept telling them that was unfair, they should test all of us who had been there for years. Guess who got fired.

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I am one of those parents that is aware of what my kids do and i can come up with serveral things that the money can be used for other than a drug test. my child is struggling in math and don't use drugs spend the money on that.

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Wow...parents these days are the ones who have truly changed...

What a bunch of loony morons, "AHH my kids are doing drugs and having sex!! Oh my god, oh my GOD!" Shut up and calm down for two seconds crazy moms, first of all you can't put your kid in a box. Your kids don't care about what's good or healthy for them, that's obvious, but you're not going to brainwash them into caring and you're also not going to make them healthier or safer by putting them in mini jails. If anything, you are going to force them to want to do drugs even more.

The reality of the situation is that most kids, like people, don't do drugs. There are always the "odd kids out" that experiment with sex and drugs, but to make everyone else suffer for that is totalitarianism. Social drug use occurs, but addiction is not always the case. If your kid becomes addicted to a drug...there's something going on at home or with your kid that no one is talking about. In my experience it is always related to the fact that daddy or mommy is a drug addict or someone who doesn't know how to show affection to their kid.

Oh and also...this nonsense that kids are somehow, "different like something magical occurred" is rubbish. Kids are kids are kids are kids and will continue to be kids. They reach an age where they start to put away childish things and maybe middle school is that age for some kids, but for a great deal it's not. You shouldn't have to worry about drug use or sex until your kid reaches high school, the kids that explore those things are too "grown up" for their age. There are obvious signs. If your child is the "popular girl" that demands "cutting edge clothes" and has a "boyfriend" before sixth grade...obvious drug/promiscuous kid. This kid has a natural curiosity for such things and it's up to you to discourage said behavior and encourage childlike activities. Another example, is your child a loner? Are they constantly angry, a natural pessimist? I'm going to say that this kid is most likely going to be drawn toward some type of drug. I mean use your common sense, stupid parents. Read a book for a goddamn change, parents just stop learning after they graduate high school and that's the real problem in this country. Adults are morons, all of our doctors are now imported from Asia, England, Sweden, India, and all of OUR adults have jobs answering telephones or selling insurance...christ Americans have become such lazy people. They spend their days half assing everything they do, including parenting.

Your kids still have their innocence, but they won't for long if you guys keep smothering them. It's the smothering that's killing them, these stupid parents.

Oh and it doesn't help that daddy is probably a drunk ragaholic and mommy probably calls it a "little anger problem" and tells the kids to be sure not to tell anyone about it. Your kids will become drug addicts if you have a family member to encourage that, this is the most likely scenario. If no one in your family is a drug addict, then your kid is just the odd man out or has a natural inclination for risk taking behavior. Sorry it had to be you, but don't make the other kids suffer for that.

I didn't know a single person in middle school who tried drugs, but interestingly enough I knew plenty of kids who had deadbeat, alcoholic, drug addicted, angry, abusive parents.

Oh yea and smothering is abusive, this "drug testing" nonsense is by far the most sick and abusive thing I've ever heard in my entire life. Making a goddamn kid pee in a cup is humiliating and therefore emotional abuse. Why aren't these parents suing?

"It's a small town and kids are bored!" How is that the school's fault? Give them fcking recess, give your kid a video game, some movies, or better yet stop living in the goddamn suburbs to begin with!! There's nothing to do in the suburbs, but waste away. To go to the movies you have to drive, to go to the convenient store mommy has to drive you, to go to a friend's house, mommy has to drive you. In some of these Orwellian "small towns" there aren't even sidewalks to walk or busses...

The adults of today are absolutely moronic and inept, did it really stun you that little Johnny wouldn't try drugs after living in a mini North Korea for most of his life?

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I see nothing wrong with middle school students being randomly tested for drugs as long as the test is not invasive because kids of that age group these days know more about drugs than they do algebra. And I agree with tigger i think people recieveing welfare should also be made to submit to random drug testing cause hey if you cant afford to pay yer rent and buy groceries you shouldnt be drinkin or doin drugs, and before all you bleeding hearts say not everyone on welfare does drugs im not saying everyone does Im just saying those that do need to be held acountable, after all people in the work force have to do it weather they want to or not and fair is fair.

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I used drugs when I was in middle school (mostly from parents med cabinet or weed, but was still a straight-A student. If I had been sent to rehab, the most I would learn is how to be more deceitful or be introduced to more drugs. I feel the same thing is happening to adults who are incarcerated for drug offenses. When someone is obviously a danger to himself or others there need to be consequences, but other non-violent crimes are being prosecuted way too much in this country. My husband is from Switzerland where the usage of our illegal substances is far lower(they tolerate hash bars and give clean needles to heroin addicts), so our deterrents aren't working, we just put way more people in jail and ruin the rest of their life's by making them convicted felons.

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yes,........ test em! but get them help.!!! If you aren't willing to get them help, don't test em'. The parents and society of this coming up generation are in serious need of help in raising their young.!~!

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Anyone who would refuse drug testing is out of touch with the sad realities of the time we are living in. If your child isn't using, then you can be happy, and if they are, you'd better start facing this and doing something about it. Hiding your head in the sand won't change the facts.

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I live in California, a state in which any number of lunatic ideas appear on the ballot regularly. Since we use the "initiative and referendum" form of democracy, all one needs to do is to find a bunch of idiots or drunks to form an idea at the local bar, and if we get enough signatures to go along with it and enough equally ignorant citizens to vote for it, to our regret it becomes law.

After they "randomly" test these kids for drugs, perhaps they will impose a law requiring breast feeding. There seems to be no limit to those who want to mind the business of others!

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drugs are in the middle school in all comunities I know this because my grand children have told us. In the school yards kids are offered pot to smoke. all we can do is hope our children tell us about it. Drug testing may save a child from a life of drugs and all the trouble that comes with it. I vote yes. Hell yes drug test them.

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What's so sad is that we are forcing kids to use drugs that we haven't even tested to deal with such things as "Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder," and other conditions because we think that they will demand less of our time and attention. Drug companies are selling the drugs without testing them because they are hesitant to conduct human trials on children. So while we are giving drugs to kids that we cannot even determine the effects of, we are getting hysterical lest they begin using illegal drugs. Where is the rational thought behind this idiocy?

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I am so glad I went to a private school. We didn't have idiots like this to deal with. Education majors are so stupid. Been that way for decades. You know what, teachers in the public school dealt drugs.

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@ joshlsmith. You hit the nail on the head buddy. Couldnt have said it better. Do your research on line ppl. learn the facts about proper use of canibis. It could save you or your childs life one day.You're a bunch of sheep that lets the gov. dictate to you what you should be thinking, doing and believing. STOP and think for yourselves for a change. And if you suspect your child is using any harmful drug have them tested yourself. Do NOT by anymeans allow a school to govern your child for anything outside of their duties... Teaching. Dont give all your contol away. You will be sorry.

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give up the responsibility over your children...let gov man do it for ya....gov man will do the dirty work for ya.....maybe they will help ya with a drug regimen for that "troubled" child...gov man drugs

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Finally!!! Someone with a brain! learn from Rochelle people.

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nice one simzee, but try spellcheck - mayne? =P

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This is ludicrous! Like Belvidere, which it states here, is a small town could actually afford to do this! I live in New Jersey and I can think of some other places that probably would be better candidates for this kind of screening. If this is such a small place, where are the parents, the teachers, on the lookout for this kind of behavior that prompted this idiotic plan? Our right to privacy seems to be getting smaller every day!

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No Way!!!!
The school has no right to drug test any child. They are not the parents. For goodness sake they can't teach. we are 48th in the world when it comes to test scores. If you want a school to parent your child then don't have children. And by the way these teachers are Drug addicts too.

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This is retarded. How much intrusion is to much? I think this has crossed the line!

"Random drug testing does not reduce drug use among young people," Jay Rorty, director of the ACLU Criminal Law Reform Project, tells ParentDish. "The high cost, high incidence of false positives and intrusive nature of the test make random testing a poor tool in the important work of drug education."
I PUT THIS HERE SO YOU ALL COULD REREAD IT!!!!

I think if my child had to stand in-front of another adult and piss in a cup that there would be some fun things happening soon as I heard about it.
Just another reason not to send your kids to public school IMO!

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