Argumentative Essay: Random Drug Testing In High Schools

Drug misuse is associated with domestic violence, increased involvement with crime and police and decline in work quality. Obviously these characteristics would not even make a close to feasible argument as to why a person like that would be a candidate for any job(Terry).

Drug testing has been going on for a long time and they have been used for different occupations. They have been used for teachers, medical jobs, and even jobs people wouldn't think had to have drug tests. The sad thing is they are using them on students. When a person uses drug tests on students for no apparent reason, that's just basically torturing them. This is occurring all throughout America and is really pointless. A child would not want some person they don't really know seeing their personal information and knowing if they are guilty or not. Having drug tests for student athletes is not beneficial because of the Extreme Cost, the Mental Health Effects, and the Fourth Amendment.

Middle school students should be drug tested in order to play a sport. If High School students have to be drug tested to be eligible to play a sport or to participate in extracurricular activities, middle school students should have to get tested also. They are just as guilty as their peers. In this generation children can’t be controlled of what they do because they aren’t raised correctly and sometimes they make wrong decisions because they are young. Schools are just trying to prevent athletes from going down the wrong route.

Students who were randomly drug tested were less likely to use them in later years. There is a 12% average of students in 8th grade that use drugs. New Jersey published the results of a six year study of drug-testing preventions among New Jersey Middle School students. The students asked their parents if they could get randomly drug tested, in the later years the drug abuse reduced. Almost every school now does drug testing for students engaged in sports or extracurricular activities.The primary purpose of drug testing is not a punishment, but to prevent drug abuse, and help them to become drug-free. Drug testing middle school students is a good influence, doing drugs affects the brain and body massively at a young age, many studies show positive

Roughly a thousand of student athletes in Beaufort County public schools. Were randomly tested for and counted for drugs. In and about, merely twenty three were accounted for being positive. Having some parents to take over their child’s legal rights that were wrongly being broken off. Putting their fourth and fifth amendment in danger, knocking them to feel unsecured and a intrusion in their property. This is no way to treat athletes in this situation, they should be always on their game and not no drug test. Especially giving out over thirty test out per month, hurting the schools if given a bad report. At any rate not, nor should a mandatory drug test should not be given out roughly thirty times. But only convincing parent or their child

“Sixty-five percent of all job related accidents are alcohol and drug related” (Statistic Brain, 4). Employers in the U.S. should make drug tests a necessary precaution for their employees to reduce the percentage of accidents related to controllable causes such as drug and alcohol use, whether it is a pre-employment test or a random drug test with the current employee. Employers should make their employees perform a drug tests.

Imagine, you’re about to run for the 3200m event until one of the coaches say that you are required to take a drug test to make sure you do not have any supplements or additives inside your body. Does the administration have the right to do that and invade your privacy? Drug testing for high school and college students is something very controversial for many years and in fact, many people still talk about the topic today.

In this Era of competitive high school sports, the lack of drug testing has high school athletes. Doing anything to rise to the top and achieve money, fame, and championships. And what they do is questionable to every parent and student fanbase; may be they train hard or eat a healthy diet, some of that may be true. But performance enhancing drugs plays a big factor in a high school athlete’s development. There are a lot of performance enhancing drugs being used, but there isn’t a performance enhancing drug that affect the body physically and mentally, such as anabolic steroid. At first used by professional athletes to performance at the peak potential, to being caught in the process and facing serious consequences, is now being used by high school athletes it has become a serious problem. But drug testing should be given to high school because it poses a health risk, give an unfair advantage to the performance enhancing drug user, it could prevent high school athletes from being faced

Drug testing may not seem like a common topic of discussion but in my opinion it should

It is in my opinion that employers should continue to test for marijuana in its pre-employment screening. Depending on the type of job, illegal drug use can impact job performance and the lives of other people. For employment that requires operating heavy machinery or the health and safety of others (transporters) employers should especially be alert to drug use. Shockingly, not all workplaces require drug testing, one of the largest school district that I know of does not but they do instinctively background checks. The power to choose whether or not to implement the procedure is up to the organization or company. According to Drug Testing USA, there are three factors that are taken into consideration regarding employee drug testing laws:

Many high schools across the country have brought much attention to the idea of giving random drug tests to students in high school. The newfound interest in student drug testing may be as a result of recent polls, which have shown an increase in drug use among high school students. Many teachers, parents, and members of school comities are for the drug testing, while most students and some parents feel that this would be a violation of students rights as Americans, which is true.

In random testing, schools select one or more students to undergo drug testing using a random process (like flipping a coin). Legally, only students who participate in competitive extracurricular activities (including athletics and school clubs) can be subject to random drug testing.

The big controversy right now within the government and high schools is whether or not random drug testing should be legal in schools. There are many reasons why it should not be legalized, one reason being it goes against the fourth amendment. Why should we have testing in schools when many major health organizations oppose it? All it will do is make teens turn to other illegal and counterproductive things. These are many reasons why drug testing should not be allowed in high schools.

Introducing the fear to students on drug testing that will directly affect them, will most likely decrease the use of drugs being abused. The president of the Institute for Behavior and Health explains that RSDT (Random Student Drug Test) could be used on any athlete, any day, and any time without notice (DuPont et al ¶6). Making the testing random will help eliminate any cheating or strategizing that the students who would test positive could be doing. Keith Ablow, MD and psychiatrist published an article in 2011 said that, both varsity and junior varsity teams should be tested with results kept private (¶6). To only test Varsity athletes would be unacceptable because JV athletes could cause just as much harm to athletes around them as to themselves. To make it fair and because kids follow by example, coaches would test also (Ablow ¶ 9). When a positive test appears, there should be punishment, but not to the extent of expulsion. Guidelines to RSDT programs say it is not supposed to end up in punishment for drug tests (DuPont et al ¶25). Not giving any punishment would defeat the purpose because then kids would not care to stop their drug use. Random drug tests to not only student-athletes, but students in general will promote a healthier lifestyle without drug use (DuPont et al ¶5). Students should be on edge not knowing if they are going to be tested or

Imagine walking into work and seeing a new co-worker acting weird, or precisely showing signs of drug use and to have no clue about it. Is it not that person’s right to know that he/she will be sharing the same environment as someone who frequently practices drug use? On the other hand, The Ontario Human Rights Commission (OHRC) recognizes that addictions to drug and alcohol are considered ‘disabilities,’ meaning those who practice drug and alcohol use are in their right to not be discriminated or judged based on their ‘disability’ and instead accommodated. This issues remains controversial to this day since every organization or individual has its own situation that emphasis drug tests and their repercussions differently. Some organizations just simply cannot be bothered to spend time and money on drug tests while others have a hard time drawing the line between what are the ethical approaches to positive drug tests. Currently, random testing of current staff in an organization without an approved written drug policy is not legal and will not be upheld by courts in Canada. This was settled by the Supreme Court in June of 2013. However, pre-employment testing of job candidates should be allowed in the workplace and be upheld by courts at any time as it is the utilitarian practice for any organization and its stakeholders.