If you are going to test for drugs in school then in School Saliva drug testing makes the most sense. No one wants to be messing with blood or urine to do these tests. You can get the results within a few minutes. And have it lab verified.
Urine tests need monitoring to validate the collection. This does not seem fun to me for any party involved.
Blood tests need a trained person to get the blood out and you need to send it to a place to be verified.
If you are going to do drug tests in schools then having a School Saliva drug testing program just makes sense.
Legally speaking.
In the legal side there are lots of cases where it has been ok to do drug testing in schools. Not sure if this has been over done or not. And I am not arguing either side. Here are some cases that cover the legal side of drug testing in schools..
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- in New Jersey v. T.L.O. (1985) the Supreme Court defined students’ reduced Fourth Amendment rights , where it ruled that schools do not need probable cause and do drug testing based on “the dictates of reason and common sense.”
- Suspicionless drug-testing of railroad employees who are involved in accidents in Skinner v. Railway Labor Executives’ Ass’n (1989). public safety is thought to be very similar to public employees.
- In a second critical ruling on drug-testing, the Court upheld the suspicionless drug testing of U.S. Customs Service employees in sensitive positions that involve extraordinary safety and national security hazards in National Treasury Employees Union v. Von Raab (1989).
- Suspicionless drug-testing of student athletes in Vernonia v. Acton (1995) froem the Supreme Court says it is not infringing on Fourth amendment freedoms. Applying its rulings in Skinner and Von Raab, the government’s interest in drug-free schools when it approved a school’s policy of random suspicionless testing of school athletes.
- Schools started requiring random drug-testing as a condition for participation in many activities. The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the constitutionality of such a school program in Todd v. Rush County Schools (1998) and the supreme court did not even look at it.
- There are other case views like the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals overturned a school drug policy in Earls v. Tecumseh (2001), holding that extracurricular testing went further than what is permitted under Vernonia. So the two circuit courts are in obvious disagreement, with this the Supreme Court reviewed it.
- Tannahill v. Lockney School District (2001) in Texas struck down a school district policy requiring drug testing of all junior high school students.
Our thougths.
So we are not saying drug test the kids or not. We are saying if you drug test then do it the simple way with the best Saliva drug testing that can be backed up with lab confirmation when needed to be absolutely sure.
You get the results now. You can act now on what the results are. If you are doing this to keep the other students safe then knowing quickly the results is very important. It is hard to beat the time. to know if a person is on these drugs.
Even if they. are medically subscribed.
Keeping our kids safe.
When drug testing in schools is used to keep our kids safe, then why not be drug testing that can exonerate kids as well. With simple Saliva drug testing it is way less invasive and when wanted or needed literally can be Laboratory verified.
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