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Random Drug testing in Middle Schools? This is bullcrap!!!
This is bull! This 14 year old kid looks like she is a bright, intelligent child and yet the school district treats her like a criminal. This just angers me because I graduated from that school many many years ago. I was involved in a slew of activities and I couldn't imagine just being hit with random drug testing - being treated like a criminal simply because I want to be involved in activities.
Drug-testing costs Susquenita student honor society membership
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/06/drug-testing_costs_susquenita.html
After Michael and Melinda May's daughter was drug-tested five times in three years at Susquenita Middle School, they refused to sign a permission slip allowing it to happen again.
Leila May was drug-tested once during her fifth grade year, once in sixth grade and three times as a seventh grader because Susquenita School District randomly tests students in grades five through 12 who participate in extracurricular activities and apply for parking permits.
Without the permission slip signed, Leila was unable to participate in the National Junior Honor Society during her eighth-grade year, which ended last week. But Melinda May said that's what had to happen to ensure the 14-year-old wouldn't have to face another "embarrassing" urine test. All of Leila's tests came back negative, she said.
"We were so tired of this happening over and over again, so we said 'what can we do to make it stop?' We took her out of NJHS because of it," Melinda May said. "It's sad that this is what we had to resort to. It's ridiculous."
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Susquenita School District administers full and partial drug screenings. A full screen costs the district $45 per test and will the detect the use of amphetamines (including ecstasy), barbiturates, benzodiazipine, maijuana, cocaine, methadone, methqualone, opiates (including heroin and crack), PCP and propoxyphene. Testing for marijuana, PCP, amphetamines, cocaine and opiates is considered a priority.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/06/drug-testing_costs_susquenita.html
After Michael and Melinda May's daughter was drug-tested five times in three years at Susquenita Middle School, they refused to sign a permission slip allowing it to happen again.
Leila May was drug-tested once during her fifth grade year, once in sixth grade and three times as a seventh grader because Susquenita School District randomly tests students in grades five through 12 who participate in extracurricular activities and apply for parking permits.
Without the permission slip signed, Leila was unable to participate in the National Junior Honor Society during her eighth-grade year, which ended last week. But Melinda May said that's what had to happen to ensure the 14-year-old wouldn't have to face another "embarrassing" urine test. All of Leila's tests came back negative, she said.
"We were so tired of this happening over and over again, so we said 'what can we do to make it stop?' We took her out of NJHS because of it," Melinda May said. "It's sad that this is what we had to resort to. It's ridiculous."
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Susquenita School District administers full and partial drug screenings. A full screen costs the district $45 per test and will the detect the use of amphetamines (including ecstasy), barbiturates, benzodiazipine, maijuana, cocaine, methadone, methqualone, opiates (including heroin and crack), PCP and propoxyphene. Testing for marijuana, PCP, amphetamines, cocaine and opiates is considered a priority.
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Maybe next year it will be Fourth Grade. You just can't trust anyone whose age is in double digits 
