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Subject: Re: We're royally fucked

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Alan

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Date Posted: 01:51:18 07/02/02 Tue
In reply to: Anne 's message, "Re: We're royally fucked" on 05:12:11 07/01/02 Mon

>>Yes, that was my point. Not so if a student decided
>>not to go to school to avoid taking a drug test.
>>
>>Alan
>
>But the tests are random, therefore a student wouldn't
>know when *not* to go to school.

That's my point. When I say a kid can't just choose not to go to school (unless his or her parents are willing to homeschool), I mean they can't choose to refuse to attend the school, any day, ever, on the grounds they don't want to give up their constitutional right to privacy. If they do, the truancy officer is after them, or in some places the parents can even be penalised.

And if a kid starts
>skipping school on a regular basis, hoping to avoid
>drug testing, then the parent is keyed into the fact
>that something is wrong. And then they can *help* the
>child.

But what if it's MY child, and I resent the school's forcing him to take the test in the first place, and have no desire to send him off to the "detox" center for troubled youth, like some of my friends' parents have done? What if I just say "let him back in school, it's our right, like a religion, to not piss in a cup for you with no probable cause, just as we have the right not to say the Pledge of Allegiance, and have the right not to conform to a bunch of Bible thumpers and/or rednecks!", hmmm?

Alan

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