Persuasive Essay: Student Selection For Drug Testing In Schools

It is common knowledge that students (younger than ever) are using drugs due to new techniques and accessibility allows them to do them without teachers or parents noticing. Education is not a factor that affects students desire to take drugs as students who have been taught to never do them, that it is the worst thing someone could do to their bodies and still manage to find themselves trapped in the vicious drug cycle; but the way it has been made “cool” to ingest them has normalized it among students.
Some people ingest drugs for medical reasons; many doctors try to understand new innovative ways to help patients with anxiety, depression, insomnia and many other conditions that affect the human body on the long run. For example, marijuana is known to relieve muscle tensions, help patients with Parkinson, anxiety, depression, and many other health conditions and side effects from chronic conditions that will most likely be treated by opiates and other medications that are highly addictive and sedative.
Certain privacy has to be granted to students; it is unfair for schools to submit students to regular drug testing as it allows those who do not take drugs feel embarrassed and…. …show more content…
According to The American Civil Liberties Union (UCLU) "First, schools wanted to test student athletes, then it was students in extracurricular activities, and now it's students competing in quiz bowls and performing in choir -- where does it end?", said by Graham Boyd, Director of the ACLU's Drug Policy Litigation Project. This could be justified as coaches and instructors want their athletes to give their absolute best and be as effective in their activities as possible; it is still a matter of preference for something that would most likely not affect the student's behavior or academic