According to Jackson Marciana , Students at Crivitz High School will be given random drug test throughout the school year of 2015. Students that will be testing on are students who participate in sports, band,chorus, and students that are permitted to park on school property (Jackson Marciana). If a faculty is suspicious of you behavior or your action, he or she have the rights to ask you to provide a urine sample. From the sample, they can identify drugs such as marijuana, opioids, cocaine, amphetamines, and phencyclidine also known as PCP (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse). This has not become a law yet but the supreme court allowed public schools to do random drug testing on only athletes in 1995, but in 2002, everyone
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Many parents and their lawyers have argued that random drug testing is against the fourth Amendment. The fourth amendment in our constitution stated that “ the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”(Cornell University Law School). This mean school administration should have a warrant or evidence of searching student's property and forcing students to take a random drug test. Drug testing for students is an invasive procedure. According to Tom Angell, “Many schools that drug test require students to produce urine samples while school officials stand outside the door listening for the sounds of urination to guard against tampered specimens. In addition to putting school officials at risk of being sued for sexual assault, this is invasive and embarrassing for students, and sends the message that they are guilty until proven innocent.” This procedure not only is against students privacy, but it’s putting students in a very uncomfortable position. Even though the supreme court ruled that random drug testing to be tested on athletes, people who participated in extracurricular and students who park on school property, 30 percent of students were tested for none of these reasons according to the graph
Many parents and their lawyers have argued that random drug testing is against the fourth Amendment. The fourth amendment in our constitution stated that “ the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized”(Cornell University Law School). This mean school administration should have a warrant or evidence of searching student's property and forcing students to take a random drug test. Drug testing for students is an invasive procedure. According to Tom Angell, “Many schools that drug test require students to produce urine samples while school officials stand outside the door listening for the sounds of urination to guard against tampered specimens. In addition to putting school officials at risk of being sued for sexual assault, this is invasive and embarrassing for students, and sends the message that they are guilty until proven innocent.” This procedure not only is against students privacy, but it’s putting students in a very uncomfortable position. Even though the supreme court ruled that random drug testing to be tested on athletes, people who participated in extracurricular and students who park on school property, 30 percent of students were tested for none of these reasons according to the graph